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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...

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 photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, 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 scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Waste not, want not - prepare for winter

Waste not, want not - prepare for winter

Poster shows a young woman and an older woman standing before a table of fruits and vegetables, and some canned foods. The older woman holds up a jar and gestures toward the table. Additional text: Save perisha... More

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a row of parked cars, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a row of parked cars...

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

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 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Waste is reduced to a minimum in the production of M-3 tanks. This worker at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton monsters are made, is one of a small Army whose job it is to collect metallic chips and cuttings from the various machining operations. This material is carefully segregated and sold for reuse

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Waste is reduced to a minimum in the prod...

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

Potato field after the crop was gathered. The long horizontal rows are waste vines gathered up to be burned. Near Caribou, Maine

Potato field after the crop was gathered. The long horizontal rows are...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, 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 waste paper, so vitally needed today for conversion into packing paper for defense and lend-lease products

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

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pan of slush taken from "rocker." This pan will be rotated slowly with the hands, the waste thrown away as the gold sinks to the bottom until only the fine dirt and gold and little water remain. Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Pan of slush taken from "rocker." This pan will be rotated slowly with...

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

How to conserve household gas. Don't waste gas by using the oven to cook one dish at a time. When there's baking to be done, utilize one space as much as possible. Cakes, baked fruits or vegetables, and casserole dishes are fine economical companions in an oven

How to conserve household gas. Don't waste gas by using the oven to co...

Public domain photograph of kitchen, 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.

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

Food is ammunition--don't waste it / J.E. Sheridan.

Food is ammunition--don't waste it / J.E. Sheridan.

Produce in basket, soldiers with American flag on horseback in background. Promotional goal: U.S. J7. 1918(?).

Blood or bread Others are giving their blood - You will shorten the war - save life, if you eat only what you need, and waste nothing / / Raleigh.

Blood or bread Others are giving their blood - You will shorten the wa...

Poster showing a man lifting an injured man. United States Food Administration. No. 16.

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

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

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, 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.

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, 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.

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. R...

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

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use more water in the kitchen than is necessary / / Kerkam.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use more water in the kitc...

Poster for The New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity for a campaign to conserve water, showing a woman cleaning a pan and preparing food. F.H. La Guardia, Mayor - Department of Water Suppl... More

Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the American people that waste materials are vital to the war effort. Printed in three colors -- black, red and white -- it was designed and produced by the Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management (OEM) for distribution through the Bureau of Industrial Conservation. Its size is 20 x 28 in.

Waste Materials Make Mountains. Keep Scrapping. A poster to remind the...

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

Stony Brook, Long Island. Rear door, waste collection

Stony Brook, Long Island. Rear door, waste collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a cardinal, Catholic church priest, 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 photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, 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.

[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

Blood or bread Others are giving their blood - You will shorten the war - save life, if you eat only what you need, and waste nothing / / Raleigh.

Blood or bread Others are giving their blood - You will shorten the wa...

Poster showing a man lifting an injured man. United States Food Administration. No. 16.

Ickes urges government control of oil. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes commended to a House Interstate Commerce Subcommittee today the Cole Petroleum Conservation Bill as a means to avert breakdown of state oil control before such an event occurs. The Cole Bill would authorize federal control over oil production with a view to preventing waste

Ickes urges government control of oil. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Secr...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fire prevention program gets Hartford Chamber of Commerce plaque. Washington, D.C., May 1. L.G. Purmont, President, Federation of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies from Van Wert, Ohio, presenting a plaque to two representatives of the Hartford, Conn. Fire Department for that city's success in the Chamber of Commerce's 1938 Fire Waste Contest. Left to right: Purmont, Dennis E. Finn and Michael T. Keene. The presentation was made at the opening meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention here today

Fire prevention program gets Hartford Chamber of Commerce plaque. Wash...

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

Do not waste water! - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Do not waste water! - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

San Francisco earthquake. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 2, Folder 24.

Cotton "snake," waste cotton on sidewalk, and cotton samples being carried to sampling and classing rooms in broker's office on Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Cotton "snake," waste cotton on sidewalk, and cotton samples being car...

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

Pelican Bay Lumber Company. The burner is characteristic of the Northwest landscape as grain elevator is to the Plains. There are many types of variations. It is an essential part of the sawmill. Disposes of sawdust and waste. Near Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon

Pelican Bay Lumber Company. The burner is characteristic of the Northw...

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

A grandmother in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been in California fourteen months. From Oklahoma. The main thing is to get our families located and quieted down. Ain't no use to send them back; it's a waste of money. They won't stay."

A grandmother in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been ...

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

Weapons from waste. These will never heat a building again, but they may have a lot to do with protecting buildings from air raids one of these days. These boilers will be stripped and the valuable metal in them reused by steel mills for the machinery of defense

Weapons from waste. These will never heat a building again, but they m...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delivered by a dealer to a large Philadelphia paper mill. There it will be chopped up and combined with water, then pressed into pasteboard packing so vitally needed for shipment of defense and lend-lease goods

Waste paper. For defense use, this pile of waste paper is being delive...

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

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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.

Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap contains waste paper so badly needed today for conversion into the paper packing in which defense and lend-lease goods are shipped. Paper is one of the materials with which Americans have been most profligate, only now they are beginning to conserve paper along with many other materials long thought of as merely refuse

Waste paper. Destined for destruction, this household rubbish heap con...

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

Improper disposal of kitchen waste water may be a cause of illness. Long well project, Saint Mary's County, Maryland

Improper disposal of kitchen waste water may be a cause of illness. Lo...

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

Production. Tungsten. A waste pile near a tungsten recovery plant close to Kingman, Arizona. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital uses in the war effort. Boriana Mine, Arizona

Production. Tungsten. A waste pile near a tungsten recovery plant clos...

Public domain photograph of mountain view, valley, mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Waste trimmed off the ends of rolls of newsprint being converted back into pulp

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Waste trimmed off the ends of rol...

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

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Waste paper from the trimmed edges of newsprint rolls blows down to the basement to a vat where it is converted back into pulp

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Waste paper from the trimmed edge...

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.

Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a cardinal, Catholic church priest, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Waste paper from the trimmed edges of newsprint rolls blows down to the basement to a vat where it is converted back into pulp

Lufkin, Texas. Southland paper mill. Waste paper from the trimmed edge...

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

Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Canada. Waste gas I (Ralph Lamie)

Dominion Alkali & Chemical Co., Ltd., Beaunhois [i.e. Beauharnois], Ca...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, 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

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

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

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

To swat 'em is waste of time / L.M. Glackens.

To swat 'em is waste of time / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows a swarm of mosquitos labeled "Trust" flying over a swamp labeled "High Protective Tariff"; an insert shows an oil can labeled "Revision Downward Oil - Wilson Brand". Caption: Pour oil, and p... More

Harry Kaplan (right) showing blanket which he has made from waste scraps of cloth. Jersey Homesteads, Hightstown, New Jersey

Harry Kaplan (right) showing blanket which he has made from waste scra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing on the side of a street. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A couple of men standing on the side of a street. Great Depression FSA...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, 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 waste paper, so vitally needed today for conversion into packing paper for defense and lend-lease products

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

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

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use hose for washing your automobile. Do use water from a pail / / Kerkam.

Your wartime duty! Don't waste water Do not use hose for washing your ...

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

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 ...

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.

Six stages of fat salvage. Save a little fat from the roasting pan, as movie star Janet Blair is doing. When edible fats should give all possible nutrition before salvage, just a little can be taken from the pan before gravy is made. To meet war needs each housewife must save one tablespoonful of waste kitchen fat each day

Six stages of fat salvage. Save a little fat from the roasting pan, as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

How to conserve household gas. Turning the gas as high as possible causes waste. A moderate flame will heat foods just as rapidly as a high flame. For more efficient cooking, use a pot with a flat bottom and straight sides. If the stove is equipped with different size burners, use small burners for small pots and large burners for large utensils

How to conserve household gas. Turning the gas as high as possible cau...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States 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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, 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 photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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, warehouse, depot, train station, 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.

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

Food is ammunition--don't waste it / J.E. Sheridan.

Food is ammunition--don't waste it / J.E. Sheridan.

Produce in basket, soldiers with American flag on horseback in background. Promotional goal: U.S. J7. 1918(?).

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.

Don't waste waste, recycle

Don't waste waste, recycle

Poster - Food - don't waste it - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Food - don't waste it - Public domain lithograph

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

Wants to be G-man to stop shipping graft. Ewing Y. Mitchell, ousted Ass't Sec. of Commerce, asks President Roosevelt for an appointment as a Special Assistant to the Attorney General with the responsibility for cleaning up graft and waste in the Department of Commerce. He wants a salary of $1 a year. He wrote to the president that the present administration faces a shipping scandal comparable to the Teapot Dome Oil Scandal, 6/18/35

Wants to be G-man to stop shipping graft. Ewing Y. Mitchell, ousted As...

A group of men standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man walking down a sidewalk. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man walking down a sidewalk. Great Depres...

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

A truck with a load of hay on the back of it, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A truck with a load of hay on the back of it, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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

Making out income tax perplexing problem to Nevada senator. Washington, D.C., March 11. Political issues and congressional problems were forgetten today by Senator Pat McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, when he tackled his income tax report due in a few days, March 15 to be exact. A look of disgust and utter confusion is shown on the face of the senator as he dispatches sheet after sheet of the memos into the waste basket during the arduous task, 3-11-40

Making out income tax perplexing problem to Nevada senator. Washington...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. R...

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

Sand castings ready to be used in producing aluninum articles for Uncle Sam's Army and Navy. The folded corrugated boxes piled up are made from waste paper. Aluninum Industries

Sand castings ready to be used in producing aluninum articles for Uncl...

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

Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Main assembly yards, office, shops, air compressor and waste material dumps up above as seen across main from "H" East side

Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Main assembly yards, office, shops, air com...

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

Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge. In the background can be seen a train with waste or over-burden material on its way to the dump

Bingham Copper Mine, Utah. Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge. I...

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

Rags. Collection and processing. Roofing being wound into rolls at a Maryland plant. Rags and waste paper are used extensively in the manufacture of this material. The strips on the floor are trimmings which are left after the edges of the roll have been made even

Rags. Collection and processing. Roofing being wound into rolls at a M...

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

Thanksgiving, 1942. Cooperation in industry. America's employees and employers throughout the country answered the call for more production for victory by setting up 1,650 labor-management councils, representing more than 3,200,000 workers. These committees concentrate their united energies on improving production, speeding operations, reducing absenteeism, and eliminating waste. Here, a labor-management committee of the Anthracite industry in Pennsylvania confers on the ways and means of increasing production in the mines

Thanksgiving, 1942. Cooperation in industry. America's employees and e...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the war against waste, American housewives are learning the basic steps of wise buying: buy by weight, not by number; buy in quantity when savings come that way; compare cost per ounce with cost per pound; and read the scales carefully

In the war against waste, American housewives are learning the basic s...

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

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Bagging finished meat scrap at a fat rendering plant. This material, made from cracklings produced in the rendering of waste household fats, is used as animal food. It contains fifty percent of proteins, free fatty acids, some grease and waste ash. It is important in that it aids directly in the raising of animals used for human food

Conversion. Rendering of household fats. Bagging finished meat scrap 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.

"Take your time Mr. Peck- haste makes waste"

"Take your time Mr. Peck- haste makes waste"

Man using carpet sweeper as woman sits and watches. Stereo by E.W. Kelley, registration no. 8673. No. 8. No copyright renewals. Caption card tracings: Forms sentimental; Humor; Courtship and Love; Shelf.

Don't waste food, lick the platter clean / Vernon Grant.

Don't waste food, lick the platter clean / Vernon Grant.

Poster issued by the U.S. War Food Administration, showing an illustration of Jack Sprat and his wife holding a clean platter toward the viewer. Issued by U.S. War Food Administration. Forms part of the Artist ... More

Feed a fighter - Eat only what you need - Waste nothing - That he and his family may have enough / W. Morgan.

Feed a fighter - Eat only what you need - Waste nothing - That he and ...

Poster showing a soldier in a trench, holding a cup. United States Food Administration. No. 15.

Feed a fighter - Eat only what you need - Waste nothing - That he and his family may have enough / W. Morgan.

Feed a fighter - Eat only what you need - Waste nothing - That he and ...

Poster showing a soldier in a trench, holding a cup. United States Food Administration. No. 15.

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 photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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.

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

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

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

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Don't waste waste, recycle

Don't waste waste, recycle

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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 only 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...

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Mrs. Mary Caperale (a widow), 141 Hudson St., picking nuts, while her two daughters help her. The dirty children are handling the nuts and playing with them. The open bag of nuts stands around all day. Room littered with waste and kindling wood. Make $3.00 to $3.50 a week. An 18 year old girl works in a paper box factory by day and helps pick nuts at night. Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Mary Caperale (a widow), 141 Hudson St., picking nuts, while her ...

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Rarin' to go. These members of Congress don't want to waste any time buying railroad tickets after Congress adjourns. Here they are at the Capitol ticket office buying what it takes to get away from Washington quickly From the left, Representative Maury Mavrick, of Tex.; J. Burwood Daly of Pennsylvania; Samuel B. Hill of Wash., and Theodore L. Moritz of Pennsylvania, 8/24/35

Rarin' to go. These members of Congress don't want to waste any time b...

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Logs left in the woods by logging operations, illustrating the great waste of timber accompanying private ownership and exploitation. It was common practice for operators to buy a forty-acre tract of timberland and steal timber from adjacent lands. Wisconsin

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

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Cotton "snake," waste cotton on sidewalk and cotton samples being carried to sampling and classing rooms in broker's office on Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Cotton "snake," waste cotton on sidewalk and cotton samples being carr...

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Cotton seed, cotton seed hulls and dry pads of cotton waste in gin yard. West, Texas

Cotton seed, cotton seed hulls and dry pads of cotton waste in gin yar...

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Waste oil at storage tanks, Creek County, Oklahoma

Waste oil at storage tanks, Creek County, Oklahoma

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A black and white photo of a rock in the water. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a rock in the water. Great Depression FFSA ...

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National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association Inc. Exhibit in Statler Hotel with Paint fights waste display

National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association Inc. Exhibit in Statler ...

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Rags. Collection and processing. Truckman unloading bales of waste paper 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. Truckman unloading bales of waste pap...

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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The WAACs awaken with hearty appetites in their Florida training center and waste no time lining up for breakfast in the Osceola Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, which has been taken over to serve as quarters for them

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The WAACs awaken with hearty appetites i...

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Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A mountain of waste rock grows steadily outside a zi...

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