[Texas Gulf Sulphur Company]
Rating
Title
[Texas Gulf Sulphur Company]
Creator
Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984
Date
May 1939
Date (EDTF)
1939-05
Decade
1930-1939
Part Of
Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection
Series
Series 6: Negatives and Color Transparencies Negative Series: 1990
Place
Port Sulphur , Plaquemines Parish , Louisiana
Description
This image shows a Texas Gulf Sulphur Company worker using shovel to break off hardened sulfur from vat .
Notes
Negative sleeve : 1900-1 ; [typed] Texas Gulf Sulphur , Duplicate black and white of color shot taken for American Magazine 5/39
Related Resources
Finding aid part 1 : https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00166/smu-00166.html Finding aid part 2 : http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00168/smu-00168.html
Keywords
Texas Gulf Sulphur Company , Inc. ; Gulf Sulphur Company ; Texas Gulf , Inc. ; Texasgulf Inc. ; American Magazine ; sulfur ; Herman Frasch (1852-1914) ; Frasch process ; sulphur ; sulfur industry ; workers ; men ; mining equipment ; shovels
Physical Description
1 negative : film , black and white ; 17.6 x 12.6 cm
Form/Genre
Negatives Film negatives
Digital Resource Type
Image
Digitization Date
Digitized: 2013
Digital Format
Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .jpg
Archival File Resolution
Archival scan: 5934 w x 8337 h pixels, 48-bit RGB
Digitization Process
Digitization process: Scanned using an Epson 750 as 1200 ppi, 48-bit, RGB, .tif; service master changed to black and white, levels, shadows, highlights, brightness and contrast adjusted, sharpened and cropped; derivative resampled to 3000 pixels on the long edge, 24-bit .jpg
Physical Location
Cabinet 2 ; Drawer 5
Call Number
Ag1982.0234
Upload File Name
ag1982_0234_1990_001_texgulfsulphurco_sm_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)
ag1982_0234_1990_001_texgulfsulphurco.tif ; ag1982_0234_1990_001_texgulfsulphurco_sm.tif
Digital Collection
Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Library
DeGolyer Library
Publisher
SMU Libraries
Rights
This item may be protected by copyright law. Please cite the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University as the source of this file. For more information contact degolyer@smu.edu.
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