Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. From these giant rolling machines flow lengths of molten steel--steel composed partly of roller skates, reapers, radiators and other scrap collected from America's homes and farms. This strip steel will see action as armor plate on the nation's tanks or battleships
- 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
- 763 × 1,024 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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