German-gun-washington-194208
Washington, D.C. Old German field gun from the First World War collected in the scrap metal salvage rally in Griffith Stadium. To be made into new steel for weapons in the Second World War.
- Date
- 1942-08
- Photographer / author
- Ferrell, John
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 504 × 375 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US FSA/OWI; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"German-gun-washington-194208" (1942-08). Ferrell, John. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German-gun-washington-194208.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 119937.
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