Pictured: Two men standing on a bridge with iron railings at an unknown location in Middle Tennessee, circa October 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
Pictured: “Bottling industry aids scrap collection: a fleet of trucks from the Seven-Up Bottling Company … devoted their entire day to the collection of scrap metal from local schools entered in the Banner drive, as did other local bottling...
Pictured: “Vanderbilt University adds campus fences to Banner scrap pile: realizing the vital need for scrap iron by the Government, Vanderbilt University officials today “gave a fence for Allied offense” as they authorized the scrapping of...
Pictured: Men standing in front of a big scrap collection at Family Service Laundry in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
Pictured: Students of East Nashville Junior High School, with their teacher, at their scrap collection, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw materials...
Pictured: Young school students at their scrap collection, at an unidentified brick school building in Middle Tennessee. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
Pictured: Young school children standing at their scrap collection in a yard beside an unidentified school in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. A mule-drawn wagon is pictured with a scrap load. During World War II Americans were active with scrap...
Pictured: “A typical schoolyard in Tennessee today: symbolic of the all-out activity by the school children of Nashville, Davidson County, and Tennessee in cooperation with official Scrap Day throughout the State, is this huge scrap pile at Jere...
Pictured: Young boys and women standing beside a scrap collection at an unidentified rural Middle Tennessee location, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging...
A photograph of puppeteer and stage designer Tom Tichenor at the Nashville Public Library's Children's Division storytelling display on July 22, 1963. Tichenor began his career as a puppeteer when he was an elementary school student at Tarbox...
Pictured: Children and a wagon at their scrap collection in an unidentified rural area of Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
Pictured: Young boys and women standing beside a scrap collection at an unidentified rural location in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were...
Pictured: “Trinity School adds to scrap: the scrap collection at Trinity School in Williamson County continues to grow. Students and teachers, Miss Addie Marr Williams, teacher, left, Dorothy Johnson, Joe Herbert, Anne Cunningham, Almira...
Pictured: Young students posing with their scrap collection at an unidentified school in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
Pictured: “Scrap piles grow at local schools: with competition running high in the Banner scrap contest, scrap metal collections in all parts of Davidson County were advancing by leaps and bounds. A huge salvage pile (top) is obvious evidence of...
Pictured: “Tom Joy School builds lofty scrap pile: the students at Tom Joy School, among the first groups to enter the Banner scrap contest, are determined to win one of the special prizes for schools, announced today, as evidenced by their...
Pictured: “Spain Avenue ‘Junior Cadets’ join scrap army: neighborhood friends on Spain Avenue have added patriotic activities to their playtime ones. This group of boys, now known as the Junior Cadets, are canvassing their neighborhood for...
Pictured: “Jackson County brings in the scrap: this is an inspiring picture of what a patriotic county, in addition to sending its sons into battle, can do toward winning the war. This scene is in Gainesboro, Jackson County. Piled high against...
Pictured: “Riding to Victory on a Water Tank: Little Floyd Edward Walker (center) age 3, although a “pre-schooler,” has joined his two older brothers, Buford Dean (left) and Jesse Lawrence (right), as top-notch scrap collectors in Jere Baxter...
Pictured: “Rosemont ‘Scrappers’ compete for Banner prize: one of the first entries in the Banner scrap contest, the pupils at Rosemont School are today hard at work to win their share of the $2,000 War Bond prizes. Seen surrounding their...