Anaconda Smelter with Tallest Smokestack 1942

The Anaconda smelter in Anaconda, Montana, stands as a significant industrial site linked to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Constructed in 1918, the smokestack reaches a height of 585 feet, making it the tallest in the world at that time. The facility emitted flue gases at a rate of 3 to 4 million cubic feet per minute. An arsenic plant operated at the base of the smokestack. The photograph was created in September 1942 as part of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection.

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