Photograph
Farmers Unloading Metal for Scrap Drive
| Farmers unload scrap metal onto a large pile as part of a wartime scrap drive. |
| Image ID: | 69885 |
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| Creation Date: | 1942 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Great Bend |
| County: | |
| State: | Kansas |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, Album 563, pg.44 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| Original caption reads: "A part of the scrap pile which helped make up the 550 tons brought into the towns by farmers in one week of Barton County's farm scrap metal campaign for aiding the nation's production of war weapons. The drive at Great Bend was initiated by the Gibson Farm Supply Company, International Harvester farm equipment dealers as a part of the Company's campaign through its dealers to collect metal from the nation's more than 6,000,000 farms." |
| Clothing and dress |
| Hats |
| Cities and towns |
| Metal industry |
| War work |
| World War, 1939-1945 |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Trucks |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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