20. Modern Society in the Pacific Northwest: The Second World War as Turning Point
The Aluminum Industry
Among the many industries drawn to the Pacific Northwest by the abundance of hydroelectricity was the production of aluminum. This view shows the pouring of molten iron around a steel slab in the carbon anodes used in the smelting of aluminum at a plant near Wenatchee. Other World War II Pacific Northwest Plants were located at Longview and Tacoma in Washington State, and near Salem in Oregon. (Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries, UW negative #16866. Photo courtesy Aluminum Company of America, Wenatchee.)