Car salvage dump, 8b07516
Automobile salvage. When the scrap is sorted, powerful electric cranes load it into freight cars--each type and grade in a separate car. The crane transfers the scrap from the sorted pile to the car in a matter of moments. To conserve railroad car space and time, each car is completely filled before it is shipped
- Date
- 1942-09
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,752 × 10,320 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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