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• The Library of Congress 6 photos
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• Navy Medicine 4 photos
• U.S. National Archives 4 photos
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• National Library of Scotland 2 photos
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 2 photos
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 1 photo
• Museum of Hartlepool 1 photo
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 1 photo
• The National Archives UK 1 photo
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 1 photo

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Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Kary Nieuwenhuis said:

  You big dummy, Lamont.

• If you need to know, then you know said:

  Looks later then August to me. The trees in the background are turning yellow. At least late September if not early October.

• martin said:

  all this money! scrap scrap scrap! i love scrapin turnin junk into money is a great feeling

Scrappo, mechanical scrap metal creation made by the Marion County salvage committee, Salem, Oregon, 1942

from OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons

• Funny Turn said:

  it makes me think of cute pinocchio :)

• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons said:

  I agree -- I love Scrappo! It must have been a sight to see...

• Jacob Allen said:

  It is amazing what scrap metal can be used for. There are so many different things that can be made with metal. If you heat it up you can shape it into pretty much anything. Metal is like an unbeatable material. Jacob Allen | www.normansscrapmetal.com.au/services

• Emily Smith said:

  This is such a net sculpture made from scrap metal. A friend of mine likes to do this kind of art. He is always asking friends for scrap metal. I bet there is a place where he could go get scrap metal. I will help him do some research. Emily Smith | www.bigdaddyscrap.com

Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the

from The Library of Congress

• Brant Dempster said:

  I've been in this very spot...