In this photograph, Pvt. R. W. Young is seen working at a chemical laboratory in Henry Disston and Sons, Philadelphia, PA during World War One. The room in the image is a carbon combustion room used for determining carbon content through direct combustion using electric furnaces and compressed oxygen. The photo was taken on November 29, 1918, and approved by the censor on December 2, 1918. Note: RYB47.

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