Salvage. Farm scrap. Scrap today, armaments tomorrow. Collected from dozens of Michigan farms, this pile of valuable scrap metal awaits transport to a steel mill where it will be melted down into weapons for America's fighting men
- Date
- 1942-09
- 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 × 740 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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"Salvage. Farm scrap. Scrap today, armaments tomorrow. Collected from dozens of Michigan farms, this pile of valuable scrap metal awaits transport to a steel mill where it will be melted down into weapons for America's fighting men" (1942-09). 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:Collected_from_dozens_of_Michigan_farms_8b07412v.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 117922.
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