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[Texas Gulf Sulphur Company], Southern Methodist University collection

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Title: [Texas Gulf Sulphur Company]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall (1908-1984)..Date: ca. 1939..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection..Place: Newgulf, Wharton County, Texas..Description: This image shows Texas Gulf Sulphur Company railway steam cranes loading sulfur into railroad cars...Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 25.4 x 20.5 cm..File Name: ag1982_0234_1630_054_texgulfsulphurco_sm_opt.jpg.For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: .( ryr/id/2201/ryr/id/2201 ) ..View Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection at: .digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/ryr ( ryr )

Robert Yarnall Richie (1908-1984) worked as a free-lance commercial and industrial photographer for many large corporations including those in the automobile, aviation, chemical, mining, petroleum, railroad, shipping, steel and other industries, both in the U.S. and overseas. The collection, held by Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library, contains corporate and industrial photographs made by Richie from 1932-1975. Southern Methodist University's Central University Libraries (CUL) Digital Collections includes the digital libraries and online digital collections from the six Central University Libraries. Our ongoing projects include the creation of digital collections of Mexican photographs, locomotives, Texas history, art, and currency notes, and more.

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Robert Richie, Southern Methodist University's Libraries

Robert Yarnall Richie (1908-1984) photographs made in 1932-1975
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[Officer standing on the navigation bridge, looking aft]

[Front of Locomotive 706, Texas & Pacific Railway Company]

Untitled (frozen river), gelatin silver print

Switch boxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers are assembled by women workers at North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant

Train of empty oar cars rounding the curve at Goose Lake.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Wooden templates are used as patterns for the laying out of a number of steel plates. These workers are transferring the templates designs, or patterns, to steel, to be used in ships under construction at a large Eastern shipyard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

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texas gulf sulphur company inc gulf sulphur company texas gulf sulfur sulphur sulphur industry mine railroads mine railroad cars mining equipment railway steam cranes railroads boiling dome photographic art gelatin silver prints mining site mine southern methodist university robert yarnall richie texas railway photo archive