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Iron picker (junk man) in early days in Kearney, Nebraska

Iron picker (junk man) in early days in Kearney, Nebraska

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets II

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets II

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Storage batteries, with valuable rubber casing are among the objects in warehouse of wholesale junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Storage batt...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Variety of junk-bearing vehicles parked outside. District retail junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Variety of junk-beari...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Artificial leg, kettle and gas tank among objects stored in warehouse of District wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Artificial leg, kettl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men looking at a dead animal. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men looking at a dead animal. Office of...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company. Most of these trolleys can be reconditioned for use if wartime needs so require. In the distance are trackless trolleys

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington termin...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flushing Avenue (House), Junk yard, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY

Flushing Avenue (House), Junk yard, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Junk gatherers. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

Junk gatherers. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views. 1933 junk markets I

New York City views. 1933 junk markets I

Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets I

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets I

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salvage. Scrap metal. Some of America's most important iron mines are located above ground, in the nation's junk yards. Every citizen can help to keep these mines from running out by selling them the scrap iron and steel which is as necessary as iron ore for making the tools of war. Location: a large New Orleans yard

Salvage. Scrap metal. Some of America's most important iron mines are ...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Aluminum kitchen utensils and scrap paper stored in warehouse of District wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Aluminum kitchen uten...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lonnie Flanagan's Junk Barn, a collection of "mechanical sculpture art" in Beaumont, Texas

Lonnie Flanagan's Junk Barn, a collection of "mechanical sculpture art...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

New York City views. 1933 junk markets III

New York City views. 1933 junk markets III

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets IV

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets IV

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views. 1933 junk markets IV

New York City views. 1933 junk markets IV

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Junk and refuse constitute a hazard on the farm of Theodore German. North Branford Connecticut

Junk and refuse constitute a hazard on the farm of Theodore German. No...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vac...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Chinese junk tied to Yang-tze River bank]

[Chinese junk tied to Yang-tze River bank]

J228257 or 228258 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 17th, 18th, 19th-century Japanese woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views. Junk markets V

New York City views. Junk markets V

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views. Junk markets III

New York City views. Junk markets III

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views. Junk markets IV

New York City views. Junk markets IV

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a pile of junk, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a pile of junk, New Jersey. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheels, tires, and general junk at junkyard, at Abbeville, Louisiana

Wheels, tires, and general junk at junkyard, at Abbeville, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People bring their junk to a retail junk yard in everything from a pushcart to a limousine

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People bring...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scrap collection. Two Washington, D.C. junk men unloading their cart at a scrap dealer's. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Scrap collection. Two Washington, D.C. junk men unloading their cart a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Rubber scrap stored in warehouse of District wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Rubber scrap stored i...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Powerful hydraulic press for pressing metal scrap into blocks in the yard of a wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Powerful hyd...

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lonnie Flanagan's Junk Barn, a collection of "mechanical sculpture art" in Beaumont, Texas

Lonnie Flanagan's Junk Barn, a collection of "mechanical sculpture art...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Human Junk. A product of the mill (See #2963) "Ben workin fer 10 years. Began when I was six years old for 5 cents a day. Lately I was workin $1.25 a day but got to spittin blood and had to quit." He was truely "scrap[p]ed" and of little use to himself or the world. Roy Hammett, Spartanberg, S.C. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Human Junk. A product of the mill (See #2963) "Ben workin fer 10 years...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Crane loads blocks of scrap metal onto a freight car in yard of wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Crane loads ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 junk dealer unloads his truck in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills (Carnegie Steel, Chicago, Illinois)

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Metal eagle from ship is among objects stored in warehouse of wholesale junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Metal eagle ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Loading scrap paper into a hydraulic press at a retail junk dealer's yard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Loading scra...

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

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Scrap being weighed before their purchase by retail junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Scrap being ...

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An antique, collectibles, or junk store (take your pick) in the eclectic South Austin neighborhood of Austin, Texas

An antique, collectibles, or junk store (take your pick) in the eclect...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

On a Chinese junk, Qingdao China

On a Chinese junk, Qingdao China

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[Design drawing for stained glass window, contemporary abstract composition with symbols and objects: Star of David, cross, dove, music, heart, palm tree, soldier, football, rose, and text "Notre Dame" and "God doesn't make junk"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window, contemporary abstract compos...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Junk flotilla on the Peiho River - transporting U.S. Army stores from Tientsin to Peking, China

Junk flotilla on the Peiho River - transporting U.S. Army stores from ...

Public domain photograph of vintage stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1535 North 10th Street. House next to junk yard. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1535 North 10th Street. House next to junk yard. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Public domain photograph - historical image of Wisconsin, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buddy Sheppard and his father, part-time agricultural workers in Bridgeton, New Jersey, raking junk pile for old metal and bottles to sell. During the off-seasons these people must find all manner of strange occupations to round out an inadequate relief diet

Buddy Sheppard and his father, part-time agricultural workers in Bridg...

Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Myrtle Higgins of Leraysville, New York, with some of the belongings she has packed preparing to move out of the area being taken over by the Army. Mrs. Higgins has been selling eggs and berries in the town and her son added to her two dollar a week income by working in a junk yard in Watertown, New York. She is moving to a farm near Mexico, New York

Mrs. Myrtle Higgins of Leraysville, New York, with some of the belongi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Restaurant scales among objects stored in warehouse of District wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Restaurant scales amo...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Old Ironsides" is written on this stove found in warehouse of wholesale junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Old Ironsid...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Miscellaneous metal scrap in warehouse of District wholesale junk company. Man in background is "cleaning" metal objects

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Miscellaneous metal s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Junk Yard Dog at the Junk Yard Dogs junkyard in San Antonio, Texas

The Junk Yard Dog at the Junk Yard Dogs junkyard in San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In 2006, artist Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade built this goofy cartoon creature for a friend, who set it up on the sidewalk outside his junkyard... More

Ancient and modern--Chinese junk and British battleship, Hong Kong, China

Ancient and modern--Chinese junk and British battleship, Hong Kong, Ch...

H24466 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Copyright by C.H. Graves. No. 104.

In the harbor of Hong Kong - a Chinese junk passing

In the harbor of Hong Kong - a Chinese junk passing

H96530 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White & Co. No. 4451.

[Design drawing for stained glass window, contemporary abstract composition with symbols and objects: Star of David, cross, dove, music, heart, palm tree, soldier, football, rose, and text "Notre Dame" and "God doesn't make junk"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window, contemporary abstract compos...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views. 1933 junk markets II

New York City views. 1933 junk markets II

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Weapons from waste. This is where they come in. These old shells rested for years, along with thousands of other discarded articles, in a junkyard, but now they'll be given another chance to serve their country. Junk today, they'll be melted down to provide the streamlined armament of tomorrow

Weapons from waste. This is where they come in. These old shells reste...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military shooting, machine gun, artillery, armed conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Junk man. New York City - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Junk man. New York City - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salvage. Scrap metal. Some of America's most important iron mines are located above ground, in the nation's junk yards. Every citizen can help to keep these mines from running out by selling them the scrap iron and steel which is as necessary as iron ore for making the tools of war. Location: a large New Orleans yard

Salvage. Scrap metal. Some of America's most important iron mines are ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vac...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unloading a Junk, Hong Kong - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Unloading a Junk, Hong Kong - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...

2 Chinese unloading a barrel, suspended from a pole over their shoulders, from a boat. Stereo copyrighted by R.Y. Young - American Stereoscopic Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. C... More

New York City views. 1933 junk markets IX

New York City views. 1933 junk markets IX

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children playing in junk pile, Jackson, Ohio

Children playing in junk pile, Jackson, Ohio

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Old Ironsides" is written on this stove found in warehouse of wholesale junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Old Ironsid...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scrap collection. Junk man pushing his cart loaded with a day's pickings on his way to sell the paper, cardboard and rags to a large scrap dealer. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Scrap collection. Junk man pushing his cart loaded with a day's pickin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Chinese junk in Hongkong Harbor, China

A Chinese junk in Hongkong Harbor, China

J238577 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14560. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Other junk (See #2962). A pile of scrap machinery outside the Carolina Cotton Mill. This kind cost money. Who cares about the other kind?. Location: [Spartanburg, South Carolina].

Other junk (See #2962). A pile of scrap machinery outside the Carolina...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York City views. 1933 junk markets VII

New York City views. 1933 junk markets VII

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Close housing adjoining junk. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Close housing adjoining junk. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manayunk, Pennsylvania. Workmen in an automobile junk yard on Ridge Avenue

Manayunk, Pennsylvania. Workmen in an automobile junk yard on Ridge Av...

Public domain photograph of car crash, accident, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged. Rubber scrap

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vac...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Bales of scrap paper stored in yard of District retail junk company are loaded onto truck headed for the wholesaler

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Bales of scrap paper ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Using acetylene torch to break up metal scrap before shipment from a wholesale junk yard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Using acetyl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Scrap being weighed before their purchase by a retail junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Scrap being ...

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

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast division of city fireman J.L. Clayton's three-man foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. It is turning out precision parts for experimental bombers. In the foreground is the blast furnace, in the background the junk heap of brass and aluminum scrap from which come the metals to charge the crucible. Arthur Brown, Negro helper, used to work in an orange grove until Clayton taught him how to handle molten metals

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast divi...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

Blackburn's Antiques and collectibles store in Paris, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Junk market

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Junk market

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views. Junk markets I

New York City views. Junk markets I

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, funerals, monument, memorial, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, funerals, monum...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a burial, cemetery, funeral, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York City views. Junk markets II

New York City views. Junk markets II

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Junk, with living quarters close by. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Junk, with living quarters close by. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Books and old lantern stored in District wholesale junk company warehouse

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Books and old lantern...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Restaurant scales among objects stored in warehouse of District wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Restaurant scales amo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Hydraulic press for scrap paper in retail junk company

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Hydraulic press for s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People unloading trash to sell to a retail junk company

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People unloa...

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

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De Land, Florida industrial pool, couldn't make a certain washer fast enough for the contract. So F.W. Casey took parts from a junk heap and built the speed press pictured above. Now it sits in the yard, because of insufficient room in the little shop, and turns out eight washers a minute for the war machine. Operating it is young Norman Bane, who was an automobile mechanic up until six months ago, when he apprenticed as a machinist under Casey

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De L...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged. The sign indicated that junk men are short of help

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vac...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company. Most of these trolleys were built before 1907 and are too old to recondition despite wartime needs

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington termin...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window, contemporary abstract composition with symbols and objects: Star of David, cross, dove, music, heart, palm tree, soldier, football, rose, and text "Notre Dame" and "God doesn't make junk"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window, contemporary abstract compos...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to a tree, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to a tree, New Jersey. Farm Security Adm...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged. Salvaging this scrap proved to be difficult because of the wholesale, indiscriminate method of collecting

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vac...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Miscellaneous metal scrap in warehouse of a wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Miscellaneou...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Roy Carr makes a phone call. He is in the junk business and owns his own truck. Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, Illinois

Mr. Roy Carr makes a phone call. He is in the junk business and owns h...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Chinese junk "Keying": Capt. Kellett

The Chinese junk "Keying": Capt. Kellett

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1137.

Junk cart, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Junk cart, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

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

Junk cart, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Junk cart, South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York City views. 1933 junk markets VI

New York City views. 1933 junk markets VI

Public domain photograph of market, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets III

New York City views, Houston St. Junk markets III

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Bicycle, tires and shovel in yard of retail junk dealer

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Bicycle, tir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation of durable goods. So-o-o-o big! But still not quite big enough to sell to the junk man or give to the Red Cross, Boy Scouts or other agencies in the neighborhood. Conservation of waste paper will save millions of dollars annually for Uncle Sam. When that pile is broomstick high, they'll be a hundred pounds of essential

Conservation of durable goods. So-o-o-o big! But still not quite big e...

Public domain photograph of boy scouts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Rubber hose and scrap paper stored in District wholesale junk company warehouse

Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. Rubber hose and scrap...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This boy is looking up junk dealers in the telephone directory. He wants a junk dealer to pick up the scrap which he has collected and stored in his cellar

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This boy is ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This wagon has been used to collect scrap. It is parked outside a retail junk yard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This wagon h...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vacant lot at the center of town. It was then bought by a junk man and salvaged

Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Everyone was asked to dump his scrap in a vac...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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