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Applicants for sugar rationing cards. Adams School, Washington, D.C.

Applicants for sugar rationing cards. Adams School, Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. These children are bringing piles of rags and metal objects down from an attic to contribute to the scrap collecting campaign

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Truck loaded with scrap metal is weighed on platform scale before being unloaded in wholesale junkyard

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Sleeping" scrap in an attic. This means that these are objects unused by the family and should be contributed in the scrap collecting campaign

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Sleeping" scrap in an attic. This means that these are objects unused by the family and should be contributed in the scrap collecting campaign

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This boy keeps stacks of paper, metal and rags in his cellar, ready for a junk dealer to pick up

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This mother has found in her closet some metal hangers, which her son will stack in the cellar for contribution in the scrap collecting campaign

wardrobe or closet

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Old tires in yard of wholesale junk company

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Torn rubber raincoat found in attic will be used as rubber scrap

Washington, D.C. Window of Recap Tire Corporation, Georgia Avenue

Washington, D.C. Cyclist contributes to rubber salvage pile at Georgia Avenue

Washington, D.C. Empty gas tanks at Esso filling station on the waterfront

Washington, D.C. Window of Recap Tire Corporation on Georgia Avenue

Washington, D.C. Vegetable counter in the Giant Food shopping center on Wisconsin Avenue

Washington, D.C. Municipal swimming pool on Sunday

Washington, D.C. One of the amateur baseball games between teams representing restaurants, garages, government workers, etc. which go on every afternoon in summer, and especially on Sunday, on diamonds in the Ellipse

Washington, D.C. Players in an amateur baseball game between the employees' recreation association and a team recruited from garage workers

Washington, D.C. Spectators at a baseball game: wives, sweethearts and children of the players; passersby and regular fans

Washington, D.C. Amateur baseball game at the Ellipse between garage employees and the employees' recreation association

Washington, D.C. Amateur baseball game at the Ellipse between garage employees and the employees' recreation association

Washington, D.C. Sunbathers on the grass next to the municipal swimming pool on Sunday

Washington, D.C. Sunday crowds are so great at the municipal swimming pool that long lines form awaiting their turn

Washington, D.C. On Sunday people wait as long as one hour to get into the municipal swimming pool