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Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast.

Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving...

Cartoon showing Uncle Sam looking at drowned bodies and shipwrecked Huron. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1877 Dec. 29, p. 1024.

Portrait photo of [Cetan Waste, Wipetila and Pte]

Portrait photo of [Cetan Waste, Wipetila and Pte]

Indian-family: man holding pipe, woman and child in native dress.

Tornado at Omaha, Nebraska - Desolate waste at 30th and Hamilton Streets

Tornado at Omaha, Nebraska - Desolate waste at 30th and Hamilton Stree...

J130746 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-150849. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Cotton "snakes," waste cotton picked from floors of sampling and classing rooms in brokers' offices on Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Cotton "snakes," waste cotton picked from floors of sampling and class...

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

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the p...

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

Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the production of guns, planes, ships and tanks

Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poster issued by Bureau of Industrial Conservation of the War Production Board (WPB), and released by the Office for Emergency Management (OEM) urging householders to contribute waste materials for victory. This poster will be distributed on a national scale and will appear in the nation's store windows, schools, post offices, etc.

Poster issued by Bureau of Industrial Conservation of the War Producti...

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

Salvage. Stacking chips in the game of war. Even better, if possible, than the individual citizen, American industry has learned to waste nothing. With every ounce of steel and steel scrap vital to the war, this employee of the Boston & Maine Railroad has been assigned the job of sorting steel washers. Here, as in all industry today, anything reusable is put back into service; the remainder becomes scrap to feed the nation's insatiable steel mills

Salvage. Stacking chips in the game of war. Even better, if possible, ...

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

Don't waste water - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Don't waste water - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster promoting conservation of water for the war effort. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense and the City of Philadelphia Water Bureau. Work Projects Administration... More

Cutting waste material off hogs. Packing plant, Austin, Minnesota

Cutting waste material off hogs. Packing plant, Austin, Minnesota

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

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanoke, Virginia. They're out to win the war by gathering up every piece of scrap metal, every bit of worn out rubber, and all waste fats and greases in the town

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanok...

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

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Waste Weir, Lock No. 37, 67.15 miles above tidewater, Antietam, Washington County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Waste Weir, Lock No. 37, 67.15 miles above ti...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Coal cleaning plant as viewed from the sludge dam.  The pond is filled with waste from the coal cleaning process.

Coal cleaning plant as viewed from the sludge dam. The pond is filled...

Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it -  Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing / C. E. Chambers.

Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must he...

Poster showing immigrants arriving in New York harbor, with Statue of Liberty beneath a rainbow. United States Food Administration. No. 18.

Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it -  Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing / C. E. Chambers.

Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must he...

Poster showing immigrants arriving in New York harbor, with Statue of Liberty beneath a rainbow. United States Food Administration. No. 18.

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. New Orleans, waste looking forward

U.S.S. New Orleans, waste looking forward

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

[...]ank Charlesworth receiving award from Joseph [...]ans in fire waste contest

[...]ank Charlesworth receiving award from Joseph [...]ans in fire was...

A black and white photo of two men shaking hands. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo "tie up waste"; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo but they lose a good deal of schooling for work) are regular strippers. Photo taken during school hours.]  Location: [Bowling Green, Kentucky] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family strip...

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

The U.S. government has asked us to help [...] Delivery and distributing waste must be eliminated [...].

The U.S. government has asked us to help [...] Delivery and distributi...

Poster is text only, requesting customers' cooperation in efficient distribution and delivery of products. Copyright by Brentano's. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Waste material and rubbish are taken away by community trucks several times weekly. Tygart Valley, West Virginia

Waste material and rubbish are taken away by community trucks several ...

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

A black and white photo of a city street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a city street, Tennessee. Farm Security Adm...

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

A black and white photo of a bunch of hay, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a bunch of hay, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

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

A black and white photo of people sitting on hay bales, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people sitting on hay bales, Tennessee. Far...

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

Backyards of buildings on the main street of the ghost town of Eureka, Colorado. Notice the waste dumps on mountainside, which will identify this as a mining town

Backyards of buildings on the main street of the ghost town of Eureka,...

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

A black and white photo of a rock wall. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a rock wall. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Ne...

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

Waste paper at the junkyard. New York City

Waste paper at the junkyard. New York City

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

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it is, if it's metal our steel mills need it. They need it today as they've never needed it before. They need it to provide the "ring of steel" which will protect this country from any possible enemy

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it ...

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

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

Waistline adjustment can usually be made entirely at the easy side seam with no more difficulty than Cynthia appears to be having. By studying intricate print carefully before placing pattern, Cynthia makes very smart use of unusual flower design. Beginners are advised to use  conventional "all-over" for firsdt dress or two, guarding against possible wartime waste of dress materials

Waistline adjustment can usually be made entirely at the easy side sea...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it -  Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing] / C. E. Chambers.

[Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must h...

Poster showing immigrants arriving in New York harbor, with Statue of Liberty beneath a rainbow. Text is in Yiddish. United States Food Administration. No. 18a. Exhibited: "From Haven to Home : A Library of Con... More

Basil Roberts and James Hopper, both 12 years old, go to school when in session and work at Coleman Bros. Zinc Mine, Aurora, Mo., Saturdays and holidays, culling "waste" from the zinc ore on the "dumps." Their fathers work in zinc mines nearby. These boys told me no boys were permitted to work down in the mines, and said they were the boys working in the vicinity; which seemed to be about true.  Location: Aurora, Missouri.

Basil Roberts and James Hopper, both 12 years old, go to school when i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Food--don't waste it / fgc ; The W. F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y.

Food--don't waste it / fgc ; The W. F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y.

Text continues: 1. Buy it with thought 2. Cook it with care 3. Use less wheat and meat 4. Buy local foods 5. Serve just enough 6. Use what is left. Poster is text only. U.S. Food Administration. No. 1.

Pile of refuse, waste, and salt water in which these sardine workers stand at times.  Location: Eastport, Maine.
Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. A bush fire at 'Ein Arous consuming the tropical growth on waste land

Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. A bush fire at ...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A man standing on top of a wagon filled with hay. Ohio during Great Depression.

A man standing on top of a wagon filled with hay. Ohio during Great De...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A truck parked next to a pile of hay, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A truck parked next to a pile of hay, Tennessee. Farm Security Adminis...

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

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Ramath Gan near Tel Aviv. The Assis Ltd. Citrus waste being lifted & dumped into trucks & carried off for fertilizer

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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

Six stages of fat salvage. Shipped in metal drums, the glycerine is no longer recognizable as waste fat. Its nitric and sulphuric acids are added, it becomes deadly nitroglycerine for explosives. When gylcerine is allocated to one of our allies, it is usually shipped in its harmless state

Six stages of fat salvage. Shipped in metal drums, the glycerine is no...

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

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanoke, Virginia. They're out to win the war by gathering up every piece of scrap metal, every bit of worn-out rubber, and all waste fats and greases in the town

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanok...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Flotation machine in which particles of copper sulphide ore are attracted to the oily bubbles which retain the minerals by the process of adsorption; the ore floats and is skimmed off from the gangue, which remains submerged and it (the gangue) is waste material

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Flotation m...

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

Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A general view showing a huge waste pile and beyond it the recovery plant where tungsten ore is processed. The ore is mined in the nearby Boriana workings

Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A general view showing a huge waste pile ...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. George Carell who successfully converted his garage into a defense workshop is shown checking finished parts of war products with micometer. The garage and basement form his factory. No waste of space or time here. Carell got to work without delay and his makeshift factory is going full blast grinding out tools to beat the axis

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. George Carell who success...

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

Washington, D.C. Saving waste fat and greases from which war material will be made

Washington, D.C. Saving waste fat and greases from which war material ...

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

A doll made by one of the 5 year old children that plays in knitting mill where mother works. Made from waste material. These children help sister and mother ravel.  Location: Newberry, South Carolina.

A doll made by one of the 5 year old children that plays in knitting m...

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

Cotton snakes (waste cotton) on Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Cotton snakes (waste cotton) on Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Ten...

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

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, power plant, electric generator, 20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must help to preserve it -  Wheat is needed for the allies - waste nothing] / C. E. Chambers.

[Food will win the war - You came here seeking freedom, now you must h...

Poster showing immigrants arriving in New York harbor, with Statue of Liberty beneath a rainbow. Text is in Yiddish. United States Food Administration. No. 18a. Exhibited: "From Haven to Home : A Library of Con... More

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y.

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; He...

Poster showing a gaunt mother and children, with others, among ruins. United States Food Administration. No. 31.

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y.

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; He...

Poster showing a gaunt mother and children, with others, among ruins. United States Food Administration. No. 31.

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Northern Canal, Waste Gates, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Waste shell piles, oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.

Waste shell piles, oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.

Stereo copyrighted and published by the Keystone View Co. No. 6888. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind. Shellfish; Wharves; Boats; Ph. Ind.; African... More

STORE INTERIOR.'WASTE NO FOOD' - Public domain  photograph

STORE INTERIOR.'WASTE NO FOOD' - Public domain photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a store. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sir - don't waste while your wife saves--Adopt the doctrine of the clean plate - do your share / Crawford Young ; The W.F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y.

Sir - don't waste while your wife saves--Adopt the doctrine of the cle...

Poster showing a portly man eating and smoking a cigar in a restaurant. United States Food Administration. No. 20.

Logs left in the woods by logging operations, illustrating the great waste of timber accompanying private ownership and exploitation. Wisconsin

Logs left in the woods by logging operations, illustrating the great w...

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.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Ramath Gan near Tel Aviv. The Assis Ltd. Citrus waste being dumped into elevator

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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

Picking waste out of shelled peanuts. Peanut shelling-plant. Comanche, Texas

Picking waste out of shelled peanuts. Peanut shelling-plant. Comanche,...

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

Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years we have simply thrown things out when we were through with them, without a thought that they might be reused. Here on this garbage scow carrying rubbish for disposal is a huge stock of waster paper, so vitally needed today for conversion into the paper packing for defense and lend-lease products

Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years w...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, 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.

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.

Don't waste water / Penna Art WPA.

Don't waste water / Penna Art WPA.

Poster for Philadelphia Council of Defense encouraging conservation of water as part of the war effort. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

A converted cash register factory now producing war goods in enormous volume must keep on hand huge stocks of packing materials. These corrugated board inserts are made from waste paper and are used for packing shell parts. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

A converted cash register factory now producing war goods in enormous ...

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

Why greases must be saved. Introducing two good soldiers of the home front: the housewife who saves her waste household fats and greases, and the butcher to whom she gives this salvaged fat after she has collected at least one pound, strained it through a metal sieve and poured it into a large, wide-mouthed can. Butchers displaying the poster shown here will pay househoulders for the fat, and sell it to rendering plants thereby turning this valuable material into industrial channels where it will be processed into ammunition for America's fighting men

Why greases must be saved. Introducing two good soldiers of the home f...

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

Rags. Collection and processing. A roll of roofing felt being sealed at a Maryland plant. Rags and waste paper are used extensively in the manufacture of this material. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Rags. Collection and processing. A roll of roofing felt being sealed a...

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.

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Removing waste paper after a break in the machine

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Removing waste paper after a brea...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window display: Save waste fats

Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window displ...

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A doll made by one of the 5 year old children that plays in knitting mill where mother works. Made from waste material. These children help sister and mother ravel.  Location: Newberry, South Carolina.

A doll made by one of the 5 year old children that plays in knitting m...

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl Description.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C. & C. hoisting works C. & C. wire rope room ; C. & C. waste dumps ; interior C. & C. pan mill.

C. & C. hoisting works C. & C. wire rope room ; C. & C. waste dumps ; ...

Photographs show exterior and interior of silver mining buildings and piles of waste from the mining process at the Comstock Lode, Nevada. Illus. in: Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of ... More

A pile of hay sitting on the side of a building. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A pile of hay sitting on the side of a building. Great Depression FFSA...

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

A black and white photo of a pile of rocks. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a pile of rocks. Great Depression FSA photo...

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

Children playing in the waste in the gin yard on their way home from school. West, Texas

Children playing in the waste in the gin yard on their way home from s...

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

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the p...

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

A black and white photo of a puddle of water. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a puddle of water. Great Depression FFSA / ...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The wall sheeting mounts rapidly. Pre-cut sheeting is always at hand to keep this carpenter supplied, thereby cutting down waste time

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The wall sheeting mounts rapidly....

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.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not let water run a long time to get a drink : Do keep water in icebox instead / / Kerkam.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not let water run a long time ...

Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a man drinking water. F.H. La Guardia, Mayor - Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity ... More

Keep it coming - waste nothing / Illian ; The W.F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y.

Keep it coming - waste nothing / Illian ; The W.F. Powers Co. Litho., ...

Poster showing a convoy of Army trucks labeled "food" in a snowy landscape. "We must not only feed our soldiers at the front but the millions of women & children behind our lines" Gen. John J. Pershing. United ... More

Food--don't waste it / fgc ; The W. F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y.

Food--don't waste it / fgc ; The W. F. Powers Co. Litho., N.Y.

Text continues: 1. Buy it with thought 2. Cook it with care 3. Use less wheat and meat 4. Buy local foods 5. Serve just enough 6. Use what is left. Poster is text only. U.S. Food Administration. No. 1.

[B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo "tie up waste"; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo but they lose a good deal of schooling for work) are regular strippers. Photo taken during school hours.]  Location: [Bowling Green, Kentucky] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family strip...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at once / by courtesy of the New York Tribune, with apologies to Briggs.

Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at...

U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing a soldier and a sailor reading the want ads in a newspaper. The sailor says: "How about trying the Navy, Doughboy? Food, quarters, training, treatment, pay, and promotion ar... More

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man loading hay on a wagon.

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man load...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk, Tennessee. F...

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

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the paper packing so badly needed today for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods. This pile of directories is in the stock room of a Philadelphia paper mill, which will make pasteboard packing out of it

Waste paper. Outdated telephone directories are a good source of the p...

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No water - no guns Don't waste it!!

No water - no guns Don't waste it!!

Poster promoting conservation of water for the war effort. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Sponsored by Philadelphia Council of Defense and the City of Philadelphia Water Bureau. Work Projects Administration... More

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...

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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...

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NYA (National Youth Administration) girls who live at the resident center at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community at Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona, learn to use waste materials for toys, jewelry, etc.

NYA (National Youth Administration) girls who live at the resident cen...

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Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. The Forest Products Laboratory has developed from lignin a black plastic which looks like bakelite. Wood contains about eighty percent cellulose fibre and twenty percent lignin, which has heretofore been considered waste. A laboratory workman is dumping a lignin sawdust compound into the digestor, the first step in the processing of the plastic

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. The Forest Products La...

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Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

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Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

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Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, S...

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