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Salvage. Farm scrap. Hay rakes, farm wheels, hot-water tanks and auto springs long past their prime are contributed by Michigan farmers to the scrap-collection drive. All the scrap metal which America's farmers can no longer use, will be put to immediate and vital use in the war effort
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Credit lineSalvage. Farm scrap. Hay rakes, farm wheels, hot-water tanks and auto springs long past their prime are contributed by Michigan farmers to the scrap-collection drive. All the scrap metal which America. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Rosener, Ann. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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