The image shows a filling plant at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland which is operated by the Chemical Warfare Service during World War One. The specific location is Filling plant No. 3. The shells being filled in the plant are 75 m/m shells. The photograph was taken on August 1, 1918.

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