Recycling (scrap salvage) - photos by Marjory Collins

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Unloading metal scrap from a truck at a wholesale junkyard.
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 May.


Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Scrap rags being weighed before their purchase by a retail junk dealer.
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 May.


Washington, D.C. Rubber salvage display at Georgia Avenue filling station.
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 June.


Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Car dismantled of saleable parts before burning it in a wholesale junkyard.
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 May.


Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Wholesale junkyard.
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 May.



Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Unloading scrap at a wholesale junkyard.
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 May.


Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. After saleable parts are removed from old cars, the cars are burned in order to strip them of useless materials and to obtain metal skeleton for scrap.
Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 May.