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7 photos tagged salvagecampaign, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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• ww2
• metal
• october
• wwii
• slidefilm
• worldwarii
• longbeach
• 1940s
• transparency
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• lf
• libraryofcongress
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• worldwar2
• wartime
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• calfornia
• historicalphotographs
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• douglasaircraftcompany
• october1942

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Annette del Sur public[iz]ing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Michele Fini said:

  She's beautiful!

• CowFace said:

  this photo is fantastic!

• a p said:

  I would have liked this job as photographer

Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 6 older comments, and then…
• historybuff33 said:

  Salvage was so critically important. You are talking about a period of time when people were saving bacon grease for the war effort. We could learn some lessons about re-use from WWII

• Noël Zia Lee said:

  when i was a kid during ww ii, we salvaged everything from string to the foil from gum wrappers and cigarette packages

• Salim.D. said:

  wow one of my favorites..

• Various Front said:

  Wow! My dad worked for Douglas in later years. Love this photo!

• hard-to-find scarecrow said:

  Now we know where Lady Gaga got her start. Seriously, this is an amazing photo, especially in context.

Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• crackden said:

  I love this set.

• Bryson DeJong said:

  careful, those look sharp

• Dasha Bondareva said:

  v.nice pic!!!

• Dean Cheng said:

  I hope that's not Beryllium she's fooling with!

• Instinctive Jar said:

  I'm having nervous shivers just thinking of putting a ring of metal shavings around my neck. This picture is awful and so are her safety practices.