Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A cannon that saw duty in World War I stands in the yard of a Chicago steel mill, ready to be melted down and processed into a modern weapon for World War II
- Date
- 1942-10
- Photographer / author
- Related Names: United States. Office of War Information.
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 745 × 1,024 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; permission field: Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information.
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"Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A cannon that saw duty in World War I stands in the yard of a Chicago steel mill, ready to be melted down and processed into a modern weapon for World War II" (1942-10). 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:A_cannon_that_saw_duty_in_World_War_I_stands_in_the_yard_of_a_Chicago_steel_mill_8b07774v.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 115639.
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