New York City Boys organize tin club. These patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane - and all in one day.
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- c. 1941
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- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 2,420 × 3,000 pixels
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