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Edgewood Arsenal

  • View of Gunpowder Neck, the future location of Edgewood Arsenal, before the start of construction. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60481)
  • Contrasting view of Gunpowder Neck and Edgewood Arsenal from same vantage point at the war's end. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60480-A)
  • View of the phosgene plant at Edgewood Arsenal, taken June 17, 1918. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60469)
  • View of future mustard plant site at Edgewood Arsenal. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60470)
  • View of construction on mustard plant at Edgewood Arsenal, taken July 10, 1918. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60470)
  • View of construction on mustard plant at Edgewood Arsenal. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60471)
  • General view of Edgewood Arsenal. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60438)
  • Inside of one of the Edgewood gas manufacturing plants. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60,473)
  • Photo taken on the date of the Armistice, Nov. 11, 1918, inside the Edgewood Arsenal shell-filling plant. The photo is presumably staged, as none of the men are wearing masks or protective gear. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60474)
  • Dated March 9, 1918, photo is labeled "U.S. Filling Sta. Labor Camp," taken from water tower. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60486)
  • The Edgewood football squad. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60487)
  • Aerial view of Edgewood Arsenal in 1918. The War Department spend about $35 million on Edgewood, a toxic boomtown where more than 11,000 people worked for the Chemical Warfare Service. (National Archives, photo no. 111-SC-60476)

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