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Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) received a good load at the Dexter, Michigan farm of Harvey Fischer, first farmer in his state to sell old metal and rubber to the government

Manpower, junior size. What's a home without its sidewalk scrap pile? Junior commandos of Roanoke, Virginia see to it that each home has given enough scrap to make the scrap collectors monthly visit worthwhile. When the truck appears, every youngster in the neighborhood pitches in to help load it

Truckload of Mexican migrants returning from Mississippi where they had been picking cotton. Highway near Neches, Texas, Anderson County

RED CROSS PARADE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Truckload of Mexican migrants returning from Mississippi where they had been picking cotton. Highway near Neches, Texas, Anderson County

Bewoners Purmerpolder blokkeren wegen uit protest tegen

Photograph of an Army truck carrying a V-1 bomb parked in front of the Library of Congress, November 13, 1944

Cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Plantation in Arkansas, forty-three miles away

RED CROSS PARADE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) received a good load at the Dexter, Michigan farm of Harvey Fischer, first farmer in his state to sell old metal and rubber to the government

Metal salvage scrap. Heavy steel scrap, salvaged at the Wright farm, Dexter, Michigan is weighed and loaded as the rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gathers large tonnages of old metal and rubber from the nation's farmyards

Rural scrap salvage. Scrap metal from the farm. Harvey Fischer of Dexter, Michigan unearthed a big collection of implement parts, truck parts, old pipe and valuable metal when he became the first Michigan farmer to cooperate with the scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB)

Metal salvage scrap. Heavy steel scrap, salvaged at the Wright farm, Dexter, Michigan is weighed and loaded as the rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gathers large tonnages of old metal and rubber from the nation's farmyards

Rural scrap salvage. Scrap metal from the farm. Harvey Fischer of Dexter, Michigan unearthed a big collection of implement parts, truck parts, old pipe and valuable metal when he became the first Michigan farmer to cooperate with the scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB)

Rural scrap salvage. Scrap rubber from the farm helps our war effort. Harvey Fischer of Dexter, Michigan, helped by two year-old Bobbie, was the first farmer in his state to cooperate with the rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB). The old metal and rubber from his farmyard brought him cash and at the same time provided essential materials for our armed forces

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successful rural scrap collection project at Dexter, Michigan. A collection of scrap metal and rubber from the Wright farm is being unloaded at the collection center at the start of a drive that brought many tons of reclaimable materials from local farmyards

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successful rural scrap collection project at Dexter, Michigan. A collection of scrap metal and rubber from the Wright farm is being unloaded at the collection center at the start of a drive that brought many tons of reclaimable materials from local farmyards

Rural scrap salvage. Farmyards hold vast stores of scrap metal and rubber. Harvey Fischer, Route 1, Dexter, Michigan, did something about his large accumulation, and became the first farmer in Michigan to sell his discarded tires and metal to the government. His cooperation with the rural scrap collection project sponsored by the production board started the ball rolling

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection project sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) received a good load at the Dexter, Michigan farm of Harvey Fischer, first farmer in his state to sell old metal and rubber to the government

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01/01/1942
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Citation winners. Donald M. Nelson, (extreme left) Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and William G. Marshall (extreme right) director of the WPB, are here shown outside the White House with certificate winner Stanley Crawford, (second from left) and citation winner Edwin Curtiss Tracy, both employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan

Lebango, Moyen Congo bush, French Equatorial Africa. Monthly wild rubber market at which natives sell what they have gathered to administered or commercial representatives. On this long table made of branches, the natives deposit their rubber while they await their turn at the scales

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan

Goodyear Rubber Company, 6701 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Four-year-old guayule plants. An acre of mature shrubs will yield from 1800 to 2500 pounds of rubber

Iditarod Trail Shelter Cabins, Dexter Roadhouse, Golovin, Nome Census Area, AK

Washington, D.C. Boy contributing rubber ball to rubber salvage pile in Georgia Avenue filling station

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michigan washtenaw county dexter safety film negatives metal scrap metal scrap collection project scrap collection project war production board war production board wpb load farm michigan farm harvey fischer harvey fischer farmer first farmer state rubber government 1940 s 40 s american farmers library of congress