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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school

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Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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district of columbia washington dc nitrate negatives washington scrap campaign victory program victory program children contribution paper scrap paper school farm security administration 1940 s united states history library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States ,  38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Victory Gardens--for family and country. Young and old, everybody is Victory Gardening this spring, and there'll soon be hardly a backyard that's not under cultivation. Prior to planting, this gardener is raking the soil to pulverize and prepare it for seed

Rags. Collection and processing. Bales of scrap paper and rags standing on the unloading platform outside a large Maryland plant which uses this scrap material in the manufacture of roofing felt and bases for linoleum floor coverings. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Remains of old Gulf States paper mill, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

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Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Baseballs autographed by six Presidents. 'Big Train's' gift to Baseball Hall of Fame. Washington, D.C., April 29. Walter Johnson's contribution to the National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, New York, will be these six baseballs autographed by six presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. With the exception of the ones autographed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, the balls are those which were thrown out at opening games pitched by Johnson during his regime as star pitcher for the Washington Senators. The ball autographed by President Hoover was presented to Johnson while he was manager of the Washington team while the one with the signature of Theodore Roosevelt was a special gift to the Big Train

Off-the-record. Washington, D.C., July 19. Just before appearing before the Senate banking and Currency Committee today regarding the President's lending program, John J. Pelley, President of the Association of American Railroad holds a whispered conversation with Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, 7/19/39

Jewish protest demonstrations against Palestine White Paper, May 18, 1939. Meeting of demonstrating groups on corner of King George Avenue & Aggrippa's Road [Jerusalem]

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at Wake and Midway Halls, latest addition to the housing for war workers in Washington, D.C. The new buildings will house 1,000 Negro women war workers and is being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Two employees of the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, California, entertain their fellow workers with a boxing match during the lunch period recreation program. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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