OFFICIAL SALVAGE DEPOT" sign and American boys at the Sullivan Street depot separating scrap 8d24240v (cropped)
New York, New York. Italian-American boys at the Sullivan Street depot separating scrap which they have collected. Each kind of scrap goes into a separate pile
- Date
- 1943-01
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 569 × 706 pixels
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