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
- Date
- 1942-07
- Photographer / author
- Related Names: United States. Office of War Information.
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,024 × 751 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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"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" (1942-07). Related Names: United States. Office of War Information.. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idle_scrap-_it_belongs_in_the_scrap_8b07441v.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 120620.
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