Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Pint sized scrap collectors bring discarded metal toys to their Chicago school to add to the local salvage drive (Carnegie Steel, Chicago, Illinois)
- 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
- 1,024 × 760 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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