Food Administration - Education - Car loads of potatoes left to rot in Chicago railway yards. This photograph was made on one of the railroad storage tracks in Chicago and shows how food wasted in that city regardless of the Federal and State plea for conservation of food

Food Administration - Anti-Waste Campaign - Food conservation. Photo shows method employed by the Food Administration to effect a national saving of fats. September 1917

Food Administration - Anti-Waste Campaign - vegetable gardens on prison roof. The picture shows a vegetable garden on the roofs of the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The convicts tend the gardens

Dehydration. Potatoes. A comparison of the potato in three different forms--dehydrated, natural and sliced--clearly shows the value of dehydrated vegetables for wartime shipment. Dehydrated potato goals for the fiscal year of 1943-1944 have been set at 136 million pounds, which will be directed main

Dehydration. Potatoes. Trays of blanched potatoes are placed on racks which will be rolled into the tunnel-type dehydrator at the Western Regional Research Laboratory in Albany, California

Wrecked ammunition train3

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Graded scrap metal, collected from Midwest homes and farms, is received at a Chicago steel mill where it will be processed into weapons of war

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

Accumulating food in preparation for railroad strike that never occurred, New York, New York