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Salvage : School children get in the scrap

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

Liberman, Howard

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Original negative # : D-6303 ; Caption on back: "The school children of America where officially organized for a nationwide salvage program starting on Monday, October 5, 1942; The children are going into the field as a Junior Army engaged in a major Campaign for Victory; Plans included the laying out of definite areas in each community to be assigned to specific groups of children; Plans were also made for holding meetings, collecting scrap, storing it and getting it to central points for shipment; Roanoke, Va., has already gotten its program underway; This is one of the first official pictures of the school salvage campaign taken in Roanoke where it is actaully in operation - and it presents a fair sample of what is taking place all over the country; This picture shows children receiving instructions in school after which they will be made lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, etc., and undertake the actual collections of scrap metal, rubber fats and greases.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Created Date:
1942
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Education

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American School Children
  2. African American Women Teachers
  3. African Americans
  4. Education
  5. Roanoke (Va.)
  6. Scrap Materials
  7. Women

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