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A black and white photo of a baby's cradler. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a baby's cradler. Office of War Information...

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

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

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. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to provide steel for the National Defense production program. In these auto graveyards scrapped cars are stripped of all usable parts and then sent to scrap iron dealers who press and bale the metal for shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to pro...

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

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.

Chicago (north), Illinois. One of the ace Junior Rangers responsible for bringing in a great amount of scrap to his block Office of Civilian Defense headquarters

Chicago (north), Illinois. One of the ace Junior Rangers responsible f...

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

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

Rags. Collection and processing. Bales of scrap paper and rags standin...

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

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.

Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage ral...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of a family riding in a horse drawn carriage. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a family riding in a horse drawn carri...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York, New York. Czechoslovakian Jew encountered at Astor Place about midnight. He has been in America since 1905, has been on relief eight years; spends all spare time collecting scrap for defense; picked up paper because he cannot afford to buy one. However, he keeps up with the times; was out for a stroll after listening to the radio all evening. He is talking with a sailor from Texas who happened by

New York, New York. Czechoslovakian Jew encountered at Astor Place abo...

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

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. The heavy sections of steel which were once proud boxcars but now fit only for scrap are being cut by these heavy shears so as to be made ready for shipping to steel mills

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. The heavy...

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

Butte, Montana. Dismantling an old boiler during the scrap salvage campaign

Butte, Montana. Dismantling an old boiler during the scrap salvage cam...

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

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Scrap metal from the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, are sent to the smelter for reclamation into shining new raw stock. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Scrap metal from the Long Be...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information...

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

Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia, but they are "scrappers for victory." The little sisters of our fighting men back up their big brothers at the front by joining America's junior army. These fifth graders receive final instructions from their teacher on the scrap collection drive

Manpower, junior size. Mild-looking little girls of Roanoke, Virginia,...

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

Butte, Montana. Scrap salvage - Automobiles of 1940s

Butte, Montana. Scrap salvage - Automobiles of 1940s

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of America were officially organized for a nationwide salvage program starting on Monday, October 5, 1942. The children are going into the field as a junior army engaged in a major campaign for victory. Plans included the laying out of definite areas in each community to be assigned to specific groups of children. Plans were also made for holding meetings, collecting scrap, storing it and getting it to central points for shipment. Roanoke, Virginia has already gotten its program underway. This is one of the first official pictures of the school salvage campaign (taken in Roanoke where it is actually in operation) and it presents a fair sample of what is taking place all over the country. This picture shows children receiving instructions in school, after which they will be made lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, etc., and undertake the actual collection of scrap metal, rubber, fats and greases

Salvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of Amer...

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

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Wholesale junkyard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Wholesale ju...

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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Containers for scrap material are placed throughout the Inglewood, California, factory of North American Aviation, Incorporated. Here an employee deposits scrap rubber in the proper container: later, cans are collected and delivered to the salvage yard. 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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Containers for scrap materi...

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

A poster comes to life. The three men tour one of the mill yards. In the background, to the immediate right of the freight car, is a portion of a scrap pile. Immediately behind Sergeant Vineyard is a pile of limestone and slag. In the background, to the sailor's right, are piles of iron heaped high. All of these materials are destined for the steel furnaces, where they are used in varying quantities to make the many varieties of steel needed by our armed forces. Allegheny Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. The three men tour one of the mill yards. In t...

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.

Chicago (north), Illinois. Mr. John Boyko, 4446 North Michigan Avenue, one of the volunteer scrap collectors of the Teamsters' union participating on the scrap collection drive on Armistice Day

Chicago (north), Illinois. Mr. John Boyko, 4446 North Michigan Avenue,...

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

Erick H. Marks, Head, National Scrap Harvest Program, General Salvage Section, Conservation Division, War Production Board (WPB)

Erick H. Marks, Head, National Scrap Harvest Program, General Salvage ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Pouring aluminum pigs made from remelted shavings and scrap

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Pouring aluminum pigs mad...

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.

Rural scrap salvage. Scrap metal from the farm. Harvey Fischer of Dexter, Michigan unearthed a big collection of implement parts, truck parts, old pipe and valuable metal when he became the first Michigan farmer to cooperate with the scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB)

Rural scrap salvage. Scrap metal from the farm. Harvey Fischer of Dext...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This mother has found in her closet some metal hangers, which her son will stack in the cellar for contribution in the scrap collecting campaign

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This mother ...

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

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

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchild brings a load of scrap paper to school once a week. Here it is collected by paper company truck

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of an old truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of an old truck. Office of War Information Pho...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Lititz, Pennsylvania. A furniture dealer, who is chairman of the salvage committee, supervising the scrap collection. The object at right is a dentist's chair

Lititz, Pennsylvania. A furniture dealer, who is chairman of the salva...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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. 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

A couple of men standing on top of a truck. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing on top of a truck. Office of War Information ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Informat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Butte, Montana. School children on a pile of scrap which they gathered during the salvage campaign

Butte, Montana. School children on a pile of scrap which they gathered...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A poster comes to life. A mill train chugs through one of the Allegheny-Ludlum's mill yards, drawing carloads of vital scrap iron and steel which will be shovelled into open-hearth furnaces and remade into alloy. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

A poster comes to life. A mill train chugs through one of the Alleghen...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of America were officially organized for a nationwide salvage program starting on Monday, October 5, 1942. The children are going into the field as a junior army engaged in a major campaign for victory. Plans included the laying out of definite areas in each community to be assigned to specific groups of children. Plans were also made for holding meetings, collecting scrap, storing it and getting it to central points for shipment. Roanoke, Virginia has already gotten its program underway. This is one of the first official pictures of the school salvage campaign (taken in Roanoke where it is actually in operation) and it presents a fair sample of what is taking place all over the country. This picture shows children receiving instructions in school, after which they will be made lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, etc., and undertake the actual collection of scrap metal, rubber, fats and greases

Salvage. School children get in the scrap. The school children of Amer...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steam roller joins scrap parade. Loaded on a truck. Steam roller heads towards scrap pile in Akron, Ohio, scrap rally parade

Steam roller joins scrap parade. Loaded on a truck. Steam roller heads...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? Junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia see to it that each home has given enough scrap to make the scrap collectors monthly visit worthwhile. When the truck appears, every youngster in the neighborhood pitches in to help load it

Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? ...

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

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U.S. War Production Board for his outstanding services in the scrap salvage wartime campaign

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U....

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombers of the United States Army air forces as they pursued Marshal Erwin Rommel's retreating Afrika Korps through Libya and Tripoli to the Tunisian coast. Wrecked Axis aircraft, victims of bombing and strafing lie piled up on Castel Nenito Airdrome, awaiting arrival of expert salvage crews to denude the wreckage of any usable parts, the remainder to be turned into scrap.

Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U.S. War Production Board for his outstanding services in the scrap salvage wartime campaign

Washington, D.C. Dial Rawl, represented with a certificate from the U....

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh Street between Facility Nos. 6 & 247, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed in 1942, this facility is of a distinctive type and period of construction. Its function as a scrap metal breaking and p... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Scrap Platform, 350 feet South of South Washington Avenue & River Street, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Scrap Platfor...

Significance: The D,L & W's Scranton scrap platform held metal, rubber and other scrap collected from the Scranton division and yards. Scrap was sorted at the platform, and then recycled or sold. The faciliti... More

Scrap tobacco plant. Wendell, North Carolina, Wake County

Scrap tobacco plant. Wendell, North Carolina, Wake County

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies of junked automobiles, rotting in ugly auto graveyards from coast to coast. They will now provide some of the millions of tons of scrap steel so badly needed for defense production. They are baled up in this manner to prevent their burning away when they are thrown into the blazing inferno of an open hearth steel furnace. Open hearth furnaces are fed with approximately 50 percent scrap steel

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies ...

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

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos process of reclaiming scrap in a Midwest plant, rubber is forced through a screen by a large worn screw, and bits of metal and fiber are removed. Ropy lengths of rubber, ready for the final refining operation, are extruded. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos pr...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

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. Scrap iron and steel. It takes steel to make steel, even in the handling of scrap to feed the furnaces of the steel industry which is turning out increasing quantities of this vital defense material. This man operates a huge crane in a Baltimore, Maryland scrap dealer's yards. Such cranes are necessary to handle the large masses of scrap steel which pour through daily

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. It takes steel to make steel, even...

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.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

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. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, scrapped for their iron and steel content. The rubber content of these tires can be reclaimed successfully to replace the use of new rubber in many articles. The U.S. Army is experimenting at the moment with the use of retreaded tires on trucks (U.S. Route 1,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, s...

Lititz, Pennsylvania. The pile of scrap is part of curb scrap drive

Lititz, Pennsylvania. The pile of scrap is part of curb scrap drive

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

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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

Chicago (north), Illinois. Mr. John E. Lindstrom, 4136 Northwestern Avenue, one of the volunteer scrap collectors of the Teamsters' union participating on the scrap collection drive on Armistice Day

Chicago (north), Illinois. Mr. John E. Lindstrom, 4136 Northwestern Av...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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

Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more important game. This Roanoke, Virginia youngster is one of America's thousands of school age boys and girls who are self-appointed scrap collectors for the duration

Manpower, junior size. She's put her playthings aside for a more impor...

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

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Audience at an entertainment at a scrap salvage ral...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rural scrap salvage. Collection of rural scrap became a popular enterprise around Dexter, Michigan soon after the War Production Board (WPB) started the project. Mr. Wright, Dexter farmer, meets Mr. Dawson and Mr. Larned at his scrap pile. Martin Holland, right, WPA (Work Projects Administration) engineer in charge of statewide collection, was very pleased with Mr. Wright's collection

Rural scrap salvage. Collection of rural scrap became a popular enterp...

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

Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pounds of rubber in this old tire should be helping the war effort. If the casing is still usable it should be on a car in active service. If it cannot be reconditioned it should be turned in at a local salvage center for forwarding to a rubber reclamation plant. The rubber in this tire is about equal in weight to the rubber used in making a three-men aviation life raft

Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pound...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls of many of America's activities these days. Like many other farm wives whose husbands are engaged in war work, Mrs. William Wood manages a 120 acre farm in Colona, Michigan, with little male assistance. With a crop of corn, tomatoes and rasberries to harvest, she still finds time to care for her own Victory garden and to attend a first-aid class. And for the scrap drive Mrs. Wood salvaged 1,600 pounds of outworn metal and rubber articles from the farm, and contributed them to her local collection agency

Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls o...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Kent, Maine (vicinity). Salvage drive for scrap metal at 4:30 p.m.

Fort Kent, Maine (vicinity). Salvage drive for scrap metal at 4:30 p.m...

Production. Aircraft. Setting up aluminum castings for X-ray in a large Western aircraft plant. Each one is numbered and, unless the X-ray film shows it's flawless, the part will go to the salvage scrap heap

Production. Aircraft. Setting up aluminum castings for X-ray in a larg...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, 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. 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

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia! Ensign Andrew Blair, U.S. Navy Reserves extends congratulations to the youngsters at their scrap rally for their whole-hearted efforts to collect material for Uncle Sam's armed forces

Manpower, junior size. A treat for the junior commandos of Roanoke, Vi...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, 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.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Torn rubber raincoat found in attic will be used as rubber scrap

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Torn rubber ...

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

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successful rural scrap collection project at Dexter, Michigan. A collection of scrap metal and rubber from the Wright farm is being unloaded at the collection center at the start of a drive that brought many tons of reclaimable materials from local farmyards

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successf...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Butte, Montana. Unloading scrap from trucks during the scrap salvage campaign

Butte, Montana. Unloading scrap from trucks during the scrap salvage c...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Spectators at a scrap salvage rally at Griffith Stadium

Washington, D.C. Spectators at a scrap salvage rally at Griffith Stadi...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Lead. Salvaging scrap iron from an abandoned silver mine near Creede, Colorado where old lead mines have been reopened. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. Salvaging scrap iron from an abandoned silver mine n...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower, junior size. The spirit of '42. The Jefferson High School drum and bugle corps in Roanoke, Virginia started the junior commando rally with a fanfare and a drum roll. Outside of the auditorium, the "military band" prepared to enter the hall where Roanoke school children awaited the opening of the rally that was to number them as part of America's junior army to collect scrap for our armed forces

Manpower, junior size. The spirit of '42. The Jefferson High School dr...

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchild brings a load of scrap paper to school once a week. Here it is collected by paper company truck

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

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Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Shavings and scrap are remelted here and cast into pigs

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. Shavings and scrap are re...

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Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap, left over from the repair and replacement of marine boilers, turbine engines and other equipment, now ready for removal from the Seabrook, Louisiana yard of the Standard Dredging Corporation. Much of the old metal from heavy dredgers and from Eagle boats of the last war will go to sea again in our new merchant ships and fighting craft. Standard Dredging Corporation

Industrial salvage. Marine iron and steel scrap. Iron and steel scrap,...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

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Gigantic scrap yard in the heart of Akron, Ohio, was the scene of great activity during intensive scrap metal drive. Everything from old cannons to abandoned automobiles and dismantled lamp posts were turned in in order to provide scrap metal for the sinews of war

Gigantic scrap yard in the heart of Akron, Ohio, was the scene of grea...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important stockpile. Employees of a large Southern junkyard load scrap tires for shipment to a reclaiming plant where the rubber will be removed and processed into essential war materials

Salvage. Scrap tires. On their way to swell America's most important ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to the nations scrap pile was demonstrated by an enthusiastic miner during an anthracite rally, one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to ...

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Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Virginia. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves--no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns, ships, and ammunition they need to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a nei...

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San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren with scrap metal for war

San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren with scrap metal for war

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to the nation's scrap pile was demonstrated by an enthusiastic miner during an anthracite rally, one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to ...

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Scrap collection. The heavy door on the baling press is closed and locked. The door must be strong enough to withstand the terrific pressure which is exerted sideways as well as upward on the scrap paper inside. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Scrap collection. The heavy door on the baling press is closed and loc...

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Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish children gathering scrap for victory in the salvage drive

Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish children gathering scrap for ...

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Salvage. Scrap metal. The magnet loader of a large Southern junkyard operates continuously to keep our steel mills supplied with the scrap metal needed to make the tools of war. Location: in a large New Orleans yard

Salvage. Scrap metal. The magnet loader of a large Southern junkyard o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

At the American Legion booth for collecting scrap paper. Chillicothe, Missouri

At the American Legion booth for collecting scrap paper. Chillicothe, ...

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Edna, Texas. Enclosures for collecting scrap iron

Edna, Texas. Enclosures for collecting scrap iron

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U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh Street between Facility Nos. 6 & 247, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Scrap Metal Packaging Facility, Seventh...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. Completed in 1942, this facility is of a distinctive type and period of construction. Its function as a scrap metal breaking and p... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Scrap Platform, 350 feet South of South Washington Avenue & River Street, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Scrap Platfor...

Significance: The D,L & W's Scranton scrap platform held metal, rubber and other scrap collected from the Scranton division and yards. Scrap was sorted at the platform, and then recycled or sold. The faciliti... More

Scrap book on law and politics, men and times /

Scrap book on law and politics, men and times /

A collection of speeches. Sabin 71951 LC copy has "Contents," p. [403]-404, incorrectly placed between second prelim. leaf and p. 1. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also avai... More

A couple of men standing on top of a bridge. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A couple of men standing on top of a bridge. Great Depression FFSA / O...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The stacks of the power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric furnaces used to convert scrap iron and steel into the many alloys required for national defense production

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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