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Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second from left) explains to Brooklyn housewives, whom she has enlisted in tin can salvage drive, how to prepare collected tin cans for the Department of Sanitation trucks. Since March 15th, she has organized twenty-five large apartment houses in the Borough Park section into units for salvage work. In each house a squad of three women, tenants in the apartment, collect once weekly from every housewife, tin cans accumulated during the previous week. In the cellar, each squad processes the cans, removes labels and bottoms, flattens them and deposits them into ashcans and barrels for pickup by department of sanitation trucks. Today twenty-five tons of empty processed cans have been collected through the efforts of Mrs. Kaplitt and other housewives in the territory across the East River. Left to right: Mrs. T. Cohen, Mrs. B. Kaplitt, Mrs. H. Mars, Mrs. T. Rubins

Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second fro...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no sanitation for the families who camp here during the potato harvesting season. When the season is over they move on. The tin cans and rubbish remain

The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no san...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

San Francisco, California. Electric treatment of tin which has been removed from salvaged tin cans at the metal and thermite company

San Francisco, California. Electric treatment of tin which has been re...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pier emptying its cargo of tin cans into one of two large scows which takes the tin to processing plants at Cartaret, New Jersey and other nearby points for recovery of vitally needed critical metals

Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pi...

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Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these youngesters a Tin Can Club of America under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. Their headquarters in a vacant strorefront at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans are reclaimed at a fat rendering plant for forwarding to a detinning plant. These cans come to the rendering plant filled with reclaimed household fats

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans a...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Kaplitt, with pad in hand, receives report from houswives, all volunteer workers, who collect, process and deliver empty tin cans for salvage collection. Left to right: Mrs. T. Rubins, Mrs. H. Mars, Mrs. T. Cohen and Mrs. B. Kaplitt

Mrs. Kaplitt, with pad in hand, receives report from houswives, all vo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these Harlem youngsters organize a Tin Can Club of America, under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. At their headquarters in a vacant store at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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

Close-up of Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pier emptying its cargo of tin cans into one of two large scows which takes the tin to processing plants at Cataret, New Jersey and other nearby points for recovery of vitally needed critical metals

Close-up of Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street ...

Public domain photograph related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans are reclaimed at a fat rendering plant for forwarding to a detinning plant. Often they are prepared the way the householder does. These cans come to the rendering plant filled with reclaimed household fats

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans a...

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

Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second from left) explains to Brooklyn housewives, whom she has enlisted in tin can salvage drive, how to prepare collected tin cans for the Department of Sanitation trucks. Since March 15th, she has organized twenty-five large apartment houses in the Borough Park section into units for salvage work. In each house a squad of three women, tenants in the apartment, collect once weekly from every housewife, tin cans accumulated during the previous week. In the cellar, each squad processes the cans, removes labels and bottoms, flattens them and deposits them into ashcans and barrels for pickup by department of sanitation trucks. Today twenty-five tons of empty processed cans have been collected through the efforts of Mrs. Kaplitt and other housewives in the territory across the East River. Left to right: Mrs. T. Cohen, Mrs. B. Kaplitt, Mrs. H. Mars, Mrs. T. Rubins

Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second fro...

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

A black and white photo of a little girl holding a plate of food. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a little girl holding a plate of food. Offi...

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

Scaring sheep by rattling tin cans while driving the sheep into railroad cars for shipping to Denver. Cimarron, Colorado

Scaring sheep by rattling tin cans while driving the sheep into railro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America's salvaged tin cans is used in the war effort. The complete utilization of discarded cans includes one percent tin and ninety-nine percent steel scrap. Here, carloads of this "black scrap," the leftover steel from the discarded cans, from which the tin has been removed, is being shipped to a steel mill where it will be forged into weapons of war

Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America...

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

San Francisco, California. Machinery which gives tin cans a chemical bath as part of the detinning process at the metal and thermite company

San Francisco, California. Machinery which gives tin cans a chemical b...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago (north), Illinois. Jaqueline Halloran, 4424 North Sheridan Road, bringing in a load of tin cans for scrap to her block Office of Civilian Defense headquarters. Her father is a switchman on a railroad in Chicago

Chicago (north), Illinois. Jaqueline Halloran, 4424 North Sheridan Roa...

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

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Household waste fats, in the tin cans in which America housewives saved them, arrive at a rendering plant. The steel drums in which the cans are packed make many round trips between the plant and the meat markets at which the fats are collected

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Household waste fats, in the ...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Close-up of tons and tons of empty tin cans collected from houses and factories throughout the city of New York in the war salvage drive

Close-up of tons and tons of empty tin cans collected from houses and ...

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

A black and white photo of a pile of trash. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a pile of trash. Office of War Information ...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To assure adequate civilian supply of canned produce in the future, householders are urged to save their used cans and turn them in to their local collection agencies, which will send them to detinning mills. Reclaimed metals from these plants will go, in part, into more cans for American soldiers and civilians

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To...

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

A group of women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of women working in a factory. Office of War Information Photo...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collected over a period of two weeks in all the boroughs of the city of New York by Department of Sanitation trucks. Men of the department work on their own time to collect the critical war metal

View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collec...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in New York, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco, California. Pile of salvaged tin cans at the metal and thermite Company. In the foreground are cans of a type which cannot successfully be detinned

San Francisco, California. Pile of salvaged tin cans at the metal and ...

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 last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no sanitation for the families who camp here during the potato harvesting season. When the season is over they move on. The tin cans and rubbish remain

The last frontier. Kern County, California. No water, no shade, no san...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Typical birdhouses, gourds and tin cans in Coffee County, Alabama

Typical birdhouses, gourds and tin cans in Coffee County, Alabama

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

View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collected over a period of two weeks in all the boroughs of the city of New York by Department of Sanitation trucks. Men of the department work on their own time to collect the critical war metal

View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collec...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Print in lot misnumbered LC-USE6-D-010451; corrected June 2000. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United St... More

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans is to wash them thoroughly inside and out and remove label. When this can is processed in a detinning plant, enough tin will be reclaimed from it to plate the cannister of a gas mask

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans i...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Negative has a tape mask. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture D... More

Mrs. Kaplitt, with pad in hand, receives report from houswives, all volunteer workers, who collect, process and deliver empty tin cans for salvage collection. Left to right: Mrs. T. Rubins, Mrs. H. Mars, Mrs. T. Cohen and Mrs. B. Kaplitt

Mrs. Kaplitt, with pad in hand, receives report from houswives, all vo...

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

Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pier emptying its cargo of tin cans into one of two large scows which takes the tin to processing plants at Cartaret, New Jersey and other nearby points for recovery of vitally needed critical metals

Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print for LC-USE6-D-10450 in lot 1940. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. ... More

San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermite company. The metal has been reclaimed from tin cans

San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermit...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Scaring sheep by rattling tin cans while driving the sheep into railroad cars for shipping to Denver. Cimarron, Colorado

Scaring sheep by rattling tin cans while driving the sheep into railro...

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

Close-up of Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street municipal pier emptying its cargo of tin cans into one of two large scows which takes the tin to processing plants at Cataret, New Jersey and other nearby points for recovery of vitally needed critical metals

Close-up of Department of Sanitation truck at end of Roosevelt Street ...

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

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans are reclaimed at a fat rendering plant for forwarding to a detinning plant. Often they are prepared the way the householder does. These cans come to the rendering plant filled with reclaimed household fats

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans a...

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

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these Harlem youngsters organize a Tin Can Club of America, under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. At their headquarters in a vacant store at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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

San Francisco, California. Electric treatment of tin which has been removed from salvaged tin cans at the metal and thermite company

San Francisco, California. Electric treatment of tin which has been re...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these youngesters a Tin Can Club of America under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. Their headquarters in a vacant strorefront at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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

San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermite company. The metal has been reclaimed from tin cans

San Francisco, California. Pouring tin "pigs" at the metal and thermit...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Tin cans and glass jars near camp of agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Tin cans and glass jars near camp of agricultural day laborers camped ...

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

Close-up of tons and tons of empty tin cans collected from houses and factories throughout the city of New York in the war salvage drive

Close-up of tons and tons of empty tin cans collected from houses and ...

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

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans is to wash them thoroughly inside and out and remove label. When this can is processed in a detinning plant, enough tin will be reclaimed from it to plate the cannister of a gas mask

Tin can alley leads to victory. Next step in salvaging your tin cans i...

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

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans are reclaimed at a fat rendering plant for forwarding to a detinning plant. These cans come to the rendering plant filled with reclaimed household fats

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Huge quantities of tin cans a...

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

Tin cans and glass jars near camp of agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Tin cans and glass jars near camp of agricultural day laborers camped ...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Typical birdhouses, gourds and tin cans in Coffee County, Alabama

Typical birdhouses, gourds and tin cans in Coffee County, Alabama

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

Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America's salvaged tin cans is used in the war effort. The complete utilization of discarded cans includes one percent tin and ninety-nine percent steel scrap. Here, carloads of this "black scrap," the leftover steel from the discarded cans, from which the tin has been removed, is being shipped to a steel mill where it will be forged into weapons of war

Tin can alley leads to victory. Every precious bit of metal in America...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Tin can alley leads to victory. Used tin cans, which in normal times would be discarded and forgotten, are transported to a de-tinning plant where they will undergo reclaiming processes. Much of the tin reclaimed from these cans will be used on more cans containing foodstuffs for American soldiers abroad

Tin can alley leads to victory. Used tin cans, which in normal times w...

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