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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills

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Summary

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

date_range

Date

01/01/1942

person

Contributors

Rosener, Ann, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

place

Location

38.88868, -77.00472

Google Map of 38.888684, -77.00471900000002

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain