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Cover Sheet - Helium Activities - U.S. Bureau of Mines, Helium Plants, Amarillo, Potter County, TX
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Delyea, Todd
Title
Cover Sheet - Helium Activities - U.S. Bureau of Mines, Helium Plants, Amarillo, Potter County, TX
Depicted place Texas; Potter County; Amarillo
Date 2001
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER TX-105 (sheet 1 of 3)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: In 1928 construction began on the Amarillo Helium Plant, which would become the national center for U.S. helium production, shipping, and scientific research. Since 1917, the government and the scientific community recognized the strategic value of helium to national defense. When early experimental operations in Washington, D.C. and Petrolia, Texas, proved either to be dangerous or too inefficient, the U.S Navy consolidated its helium activities in Amarillo, Texas, under U.S. Bureau of Mines supervision...
  • Survey number: HAER TX-105
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0976.sheet.00001a
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