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Ties of abandoned railroad in former active mining area of San Juan County, Colorado. The rails were pulled up and sold for scrap iron when the mining company moved out

Ties of abandoned railroad in former active mining area of San Juan Co...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equip...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pile of scrap collected from various roadside junkheaps for re-use by the steel mills producing for defense. Soon it will be loaded into open hearth and other types of furnaces to be used in the production of new steel for defense industry. Nearly forty percent of the steel produced comes from scrap metals

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pi...

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Jalopies for defense. Here are some of the parts stripped from junked automobiles in auto graveyards. These parts were removed from cars before they were sent to a scrap iron dealer, who will process them and ship them out to steel mills. Some of these parts will be resold, but the vast majority, whether sold or not, will eventually end up in the furnace of an open hearth steel mill. There it will be melted down and combined with virgin metals to provide the fine quality steel needed for defense production

Jalopies for defense. Here are some of the parts stripped from junked ...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steel. A workman adds alloying materials to the bath of molten steel in one of the thirty-five ton electric arc furnaces. These furnaces give faster heating and more accurate temperature control than do open hearth furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Resident of shack town along river bottoms. Dubuque, Iowa. He scavenges the city dump daily for scrap iron, bits of metal, etc.

Resident of shack town along river bottoms. Dubuque, Iowa. He scavenge...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bangård med skrot, dressin och oljefat.

Bangård med skrot, dressin och oljefat.

Bangård med skrot, dressin och oljefat. Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy. Workers ramming in the bottom of a new thirty-five ton electric melting furnace which two days later was placed in operation to produce steel alloys from scrap iron and steel. This plant is being expanded at record speed to keep up with the even increasing needs of the national defense production program. Allegheny Ludlum, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy....

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the production of guns, planes, ships and tanks

Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel manufacture. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

Steel manufacture. Back into production go these carloads of scrap met...

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Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. They look pretty useless, don't they? Actually, they're some of the vital scrap metal Uncle Sam needs and needs badly, for the production of guns, planes, ships and tanks

Weapons from waste. Old tractor, old carts, old boilers, old buckets. ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Robert H. Ridgway, consultant for Scrap Iron and Steel, Materials Branch, Production Division

Robert H. Ridgway, consultant for Scrap Iron and Steel, Materials Bran...

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pile of scrap collected from various roadside junkheaps for re-use by the steel mills producing for defense. Soon it will be loaded into open hearth and other types of furnaces to be used in the production of new steel for defense industry. Nearly forty percent of the steel produced comes from scrap metals

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Robert H. Ridgway, consultant for scrap iron and steel, Materials Branch, Production Division

Robert H. Ridgway, consultant for scrap iron and steel, Materials Bran...

Home on the edge of the city dump. Dubuque, Iowa. This is one of the group homes occupied by single men who gain their livelihood by scouring the dump each day for scrap iron, paper boxes, which they bale and sell, and even food, grapefruit, oranges, etc., dumped by produce companies

Home on the edge of the city dump. Dubuque, Iowa. This is one of the g...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The huge carbon electrodes of the thirty-five ton electric melting furnaces used in converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steels. A worker is adjusting the rings that guide the electrodes into the arc furnace. This is just one of the new furnaces under construction at this plant to meet the expanding need for alloy steels under the emergency created by the national defenseproduction program

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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R.J. Lund, consultant on miscellaneous minerals, Materials Branch, Production Management (right). Robert H. Ridgway (left), consultant for scrap iron and steel, Materials Branch, Production Division

R.J. Lund, consultant on miscellaneous minerals, Materials Branch, Pro...

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It's the end of a short episode for this scrap steel accumulated from the croppings of tubing and piping right in the steel mill. This scrap will be charged into steel converters once again, and again will emerge as refined steel for industrial production. Steel mills themselves provide large portions of the scrap metal needed for production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It's the end of a short episode f...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these car...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Loading scrap iron into freight cars. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Proximity of oil fields accounts for the large amount of scrap iron collected and shipped out of Oklahoma City

Loading scrap iron into freight cars. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Proximi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Man from river bottoms shack town, Iowa. He collects scrap iron, bits of metal, etc., from the city dump. Note the burlap sack

Man from river bottoms shack town, Iowa. He collects scrap iron, bits ...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these car...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Scrap iron. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Proximity of oil fields accounts for huge amount of scrap iron shipped out of Oklahoma City

Scrap iron. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Proximity of oil fields accounts ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Administration

E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lotfull of scrap iron, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Lotfull of scrap iron, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The stacks of the power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric furnaces used to convert scrap iron and steel into the many alloys required for national defense production

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Into the charging boxes goes this carload of scrap metal. Steel mills operating at capacity cannot afford to run short of these precious bits of cast away metal. The charging boxes foreground, will carry the scrap to the furnace for remelting

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Into the charging boxes goes this...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel mill is delivered by motor truck. The melting of alloy steel for defense production necessitates constant delivery of scrap iron and steel to the mills. The overhead magnet will deposit the steel in a loader, which then carries it to an open hearth or electric furnace. In the neighborhood of forty percent of all steel produced comes from scrap metal

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel m...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pile of scrap collected from various roadside junkheaps for re-use by the steel mills producing for defense. Soon it will be loaded into open hearth and other types of furnaces to be used in the production of new steel for defense industry. Nearly forty percent of the steel produced comes from scrap metals

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Administration

E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shacks on edge of city dump, occupied by men who gain their living by salvaging of scrap iron, old tires, paper which they bale, etc. Dubuque, Iowa

Shacks on edge of city dump, occupied by men who gain their living by ...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Into the charging boxes goes this carload of scrap metal. Steel mills operating at capacity cannot afford to run short of these precious bits of cast away metal. The charging boxes foreground, will carry the scrap to the furnace for remelting

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Into the charging boxes goes this...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. A rigid schedule, though they don't cover much ground. These men operate a locomotive inside the plant grounds, hauling scrap and other ingredients to the open hearth and electric furnaces for melting and refining

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. A rigid schedule, though they don...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The throbbing heart of this plant where scrap iron and steel are convert into alloy steels for the national defense production program. Heavy wires carry current to the huge electric melting furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. General view of part of the plant where scrap iron and steel are converted into many grades of steel alloys. In the foreground are carloads of finished products, while in the middle foreground can be seen piles and cars of scrap coming in to feed the huge furnaces. In the background is the power house which supplies electricity and steam to turn the wheels of this important defense industry, set in the Pennsylvania hills about thirty miles north of Pittsburgh, one of America's most important steel producing centers

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel mill is delivered by motor truck. The melting of alloy steel for defense production necessitates constant delivery of scrap iron and steel to the mills. The overhead magnet will deposit the steel in a loader, which then carries it to an open hearth or electric furnace. In the neighborhood of forty percent of all steel produced comes from scrap metal

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel m...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these car...

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Rubber reclamation. Reclaimed rubber in the making. Dried scrap rubber, reclaimed at a large Midwest plant, is discharged from a continuous belt dryer and collected for an operation on the mill rolls. The procedure is known as the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Reclaimed rubber in the making. Dried scrap rubber...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. A building truckload of discarded automobiles stripped of all usable parts and non-ferrous materials is delivered to a scrap iron dealer's processing plant in Baltimore, Maryland. This steel will be baled in huge hydraulic presses and sent to steel mills to feed the ever hungry furnaces now turning out steel for the national defense production program

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. A building truckload of discarded ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to provide steel for the National Defense production program. In these auto graveyards scrapped cars are stripped of all usable parts and then sent to scrap iron dealers who press and bale the metal for shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to pro...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hamilton W. Wright, center, chief of the Industrial Salvage Branch, Salvage Division, War Production Board, is presented with a handsomely prepared jumbo book by Gordon Lament, right, of New York City, president of the Dairy Industry Supply Association. The book contains copies of the 250 pages of advertising and editorial cooperation contributed by the twenty-two trade publications in the dairy field in connection with special scrap salvage campaign sponsored by the Dairy Industry Supply Association, which covered 30,000 dairy processing firms throughout the country. It is worthy to note that twenty million pounds of critically needed materials were collected against an original objective of a million pounds. Truly a remarkable performance. Eric Webster, left, chief of the General Industrial Equipment Division, WPB, looks on

Hamilton W. Wright, center, chief of the Industrial Salvage Branch, Sa...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to provide steel for the National Defense production program. In these auto graveyards scrapped cars are stripped of all usable parts and then sent to scrap iron dealers who press and bale the metal for shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to pro...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rags.

Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rag...

Poster for the Philadelphia Salvage Committee encouraging scrap drives to aid the war effort. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Approved and released by the Philadelphia Coun... More

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Library of Congress contribution to the scrap metal conservation program

Library of Congress contribution to the scrap metal conservation progr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Baltimore, Maryland. Scrapped oars are collected in such yards in every state. Usable parts are stripped from the chassis and the remainder of the car is sent to scrap iron dealers for processing and shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Ba...

Public domain photograph of Maryland in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. One of the machines used in converting scrap rubber into reclaim stock in a large Midwest plant which utilizes old tires in making sheet rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. One of the machines us...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General view of fifteen buses out of service, sold for scrap to supply much needed raw material for the steel mills. The buses were sold from a Long Island parking lot where they have been parked for over one year

General view of fifteen buses out of service, sold for scrap to supply...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a parking lot, cars, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubb...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it is, if it's metal our steel mills need it. They need it today as they've never needed it before. They need it to provide the "ring of steel" which will protect this country from any possible enemy

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charging one of the 180-ton hearth furnaces at a Midwest plant with pig iron. The charge consists of about fifty-two percent steel scrap and forty-eight percent molten iron

Charging one of the 180-ton hearth furnaces at a Midwest plant with pi...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber reclamation. Recovering rubber from old tires. In the central wash tanks of a large Midwest plant employing the xylos process, agitated water removes dirt, treated fiber and excess fiber solvent. This operation follows removal of bead portions from scrap casings, breaking of casings into small pieces and dissolving of fiber in caustic soda. The resultant phases of rubber are then pumped to dewatering sources. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Recovering rubber from old tires. In the central w...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric by the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "c...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

East Islip auto graveyard - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

East Islip auto graveyard - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. Rubber scrap, obtained by dissolving and washing away all fibrous materials, passes through a steaming operation. It will then go through the drying, refining and other xylos processes at a big Midwest plant that is recovering large quantities for war essentials. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Producing reclaimed rubber. Rubber scrap, obtained...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Steel for national defense. Scrap iron to feed the hungry furnaces of the steel mills (at least fifty percent scrap must be used in the open hearth process). In this Baltimore scrap iron dealer's plant, car bodies are compressed hydraulically into small cubes

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Steel for national defense. Scrap ...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Maryland, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. The man behind the steel worker. A workman in an auto graveyard near Baltimore, Maryland, which is cooperating in the drive to increase collection of scrap iron and steel. Cars are stripped of usable parts and then burned to dispose of unusable material

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. The man behind the steel worker. A...

Public domain photograph of Maryland in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tires reclaimed from automobiles, scrapped for their iron and steel content. The rubber content of these tires can be reclaimed successfully to replace the use of new rubber in many articles. The U.S. Army is experimenting at the moment with the use of retreaded tires on trucks (U.S. Route 1,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tires reclaimed from automobiles, ...

Small furniture made from scrap materials, probably on a Farm Security Administration project

Small furniture made from scrap materials, probably on a Farm Security...

Public domain photograph of furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase price in war bonds to the seller, Frederick G. Zander, as Ben Taft, second from left, auto salvage inspector of the automobile graveyard section and another War Production Board (WPB) official look on. Group of Office of Price Administration (OPA) officials with buyer and seller of 15 buses for scrap metal in a Long Island, New York parking lot

Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase pric...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Library of Congress contribution to the scrap metal conservation program

Library of Congress contribution to the scrap metal conservation progr...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel materials that can be converted into steel for the national defense production program (U.S., Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boilers represent a potential source of tons of steel for national defense production. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel scrap that can be converted into steel to alleviate threatened shortages of this vital defense material (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boiler...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber "mush" from old tires. Softened rubber material, reclaimed from scrap tires by dissolving and washing away the fiber, passes from dewatering screens to storage bins. The rubber, still hot from steam used in previous operations, is kept moving into a squeezing device before proceeding to the drying and other operations of the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "mush" from old tires. Softened rubber mate...

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Conservation scrap iron and steel. Industrial scrap is carefully conserved for re-use. These gear blanks are part of the maintenance supplies pile at a large steel plant. They will be used to replace worn parts on rolling mill equipment or possibly remelted with other scrap. Allegheny Ludlum. Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

Conservation scrap iron and steel. Industrial scrap is carefully conse...

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Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos process of reclaiming scrap in a Midwest plant, rubber is forced through a screen by a large worn screw, and bits of metal and fiber are removed. Ropy lengths of rubber, ready for the final refining operation, are extruded. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber "spaghetti" from old tires. In the xylos pr...

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Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubb...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Steel for national defense. Scrap iron to feed the hungry furnaces of the steel mills (at least fifty percent scrap must be used in the open hearth process). In this Baltimore scrap iron dealer's plant, car bodies are compressed hydraulically into small cubes

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Steel for national defense. Scrap ...

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Toys made from scrap materials, probably on a Farm Security Administration project

Toys made from scrap materials, probably on a Farm Security Administra...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as...

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"V" Gates, Hitler. Jack Nathan, holds the grill from his Brooklyn home, which he donated yesterday to the New York City Salvage Committee to help its campaign for scrap metal

"V" Gates, Hitler. Jack Nathan, holds the grill from his Brooklyn home...

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Photo taken at East Islip, Long Island, of the Gudkin automobile graveyard

Photo taken at East Islip, Long Island, of the Gudkin automobile grave...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Baltimore, Maryland. Scrapped oars are collected in such yards in every state. Usable parts are stripped from the chassis and the remainder of the car is sent to scrap iron dealers for processing and shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Ba...

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Old gates turned in for scrap. Soon to be added to the scrap pile is this huge wrought iron gate of the historic Friendship estate, Washington, D.C., which the government has taken over for a huge housing project. This is one of two large gates of the estate, which, along with a 400-foot iron fence, will add 40,000 pounds to the nation's scrap pile. Shown in the picture are, left to right: Robert C. Waldie, project manager, Defense Homes Corporation; Lessing J. Rosenwald, director, War Production Board (WPB) Conservation Division; Clifton E. Mack, director, Procurement Division, Treasury Department

Old gates turned in for scrap. Soon to be added to the scrap pile is t...

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Rubber reclamation. Science guides rubber reclamation. Skilled chemists at a Midwest xylos process plant test every batch of rubber recovered from scrap to ensure removal of all traces of fabric, metal and other foreign matter. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Science guides rubber reclamation. Skilled chemist...

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A black and white photo of a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a machine in a factory. Office of War Infor...

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Aluminum for defense. Nez Perce, Idaho

Aluminum for defense. Nez Perce, Idaho

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel materials that can be converted into steel for the national defense production program (U.S., Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast...

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Conservation of used material bears heavily on the progress of the defense program. From Western Electric's distributing houses used wire and cable is shipped to the Nassau Smelting and Refining Company, where its components are preserved and cast into ingots and billets that find their way back to industry again. At the Atlanta distributing house, a new battery-driven lift and dumptruck speeds the local conservation program

Conservation of used material bears heavily on the progress of the def...

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Krylbosmällen: Vagnsskrot efter explosionen av ett tyskt ammunitionstag vid Krylbo, 1941

Krylbosmällen: Vagnsskrot efter explosionen av ett tyskt ammunitionsta...

Krylbosmällen. Vagnsskrot efter explosionen av ett tyskt ammunitionståg vid Krylbo järnvägsstation den 19 juli 1941.

A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to ...

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Krylbosmällen. Eldhärjade personvagnar efter explosionen av ett tyskt ammunitionståg vid Krylbo järnvägsstation den 19 juli 1941.

Krylbosmällen. Eldhärjade personvagnar efter explosionen av ett tyskt ...

Krylbosmällen. Eldhärjade personvagnar efter explosionen av ett tyskt ammunitionståg vid Krylbo järnvägsstation den 19 juli 1941.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Baltimore, Maryland. Scrapped oars are collected in such yards in every state. Usable parts are stripped from the chassis and the remainder of the car is sent to scrap iron dealers for processing and shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. An automobile graveyard outside Ba...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. Standing among the piles of reclaimable materials at the Colmar Manor, Maryland auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, a U.S. Marshal requisitions all scrap metal on hand. Donovan, the owner, had refused to sell the much-needed materials at established prices

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. Standing among the piles of re...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, scrapped for their iron and steel content. The rubber content of these tires can be reclaimed successfully to replace the use of new rubber in many articles. The U.S. Army is experimenting at the moment with the use of retreaded tires on trucks (U.S. Route 1,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tire reclaimed from automobiles, s...