Roberts, Martha McMillan
Martha McMillan Roberts American photographer
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| Conservation rubber tires. Scenes such as this become less and less frequent as Uncle Sam pushes his all-out drive to conserve rubber. Many of these discarded tires could easily be reconditioned and used for many thousands of miles. Other discards are immediately baled up and reused by rubber plants. Two tons of reclaimed rubber will go as far as one ton of crude rubber |
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| Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in |
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| Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Tires reclaimed from automobiles, scrapped for their iron and steel content. The rubber content of these tires can be reclaimed successfully to replace the use of new rubber in many articles. The U.S. Army is experimenting at the moment with the use of retreaded tires on trucks (U.S. Route 1 |
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| Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Waste materials from heaps such as these are a rich source of scrap materials for conversion into vitally needed defense material. Efforts are now being made to collect all such materials to alleviate threatened shortages (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941) |
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| Conservation. Truck tires runs 146,000 miles. This truck tire has run 146,000 miles. It is now planned to retreat it with a life expenctancy of at least half the original mileage. The tire is size 9.75 x 20, weighs 129 pounds and was run at an air pressure of 70 pounds. Miss Jean Spanitz, stenographer in the Division of Motor Transportaion, Office of Defense Transportation, poses with the tire |
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| Good citizenship and plain common sense. This man is performing a duty every car owner owes to himself and to our fighting men. In having his car adjusted to prevent excessive tire wear--and in observing the simple rules that make tires last longer--he is making a valuable contribution to our war effort. The man who wastes rubber is a poor citizen and blind even to his own personal interests |
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| Hopkins Place housing project. Washington, D.C. |
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| Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. |
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| Last year this camp averaged two trailers at a time. It now has about twenty-five trailers occupied mostly by defense workers. In or near Alexandria, Virginia |
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| A little miss hitting the mark. Although her mind is far from vengeance to be wrecked on the Axis powers, this little lady is contributing to their defeat. She has gathered up an old bicycle tire and other odds and ends to contribute to the scrap rubber collection drive. Reclaimed rubber made from these materials is playing an imcreasingly important part in the war effort. Large percentages of "reclaim" are now being used in many material articles, such as combat tires, self-sealing gas tanks, etc.. Help build up Uncle Sam's scrap rubbe pile by contributing any no longer used rubber articles you may have |
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| Lunch hour for government employees. Washington, D.C. |
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| National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C. |
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| Nightclub, U.S. 1 between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Protection piece. The finished assembly of a 37 mm anti-aircraft gun carriage receives final adjustments in an eastern arsenal |
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| Public gardens and arboretums of the United States. Text and photos. by Martha McMillan Roberts. |
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| Repairing streetcar tracks, Fourteenth and G Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. |
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| Rubber salvage drive. July-Sept., 1942. Stacks of used rubber articles |
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| Salvage. Scrap rubber collection. Have you any old rubber lying around? Look at this picture closely and you will find many things that you too can contribute to the national scrap rubber pile. This accumulation in the yards of the Dowenthal Company in Akron, Ohio, contains old bicycle tires, hot water bottles, fruit jar rings, rubber heals and soles, floor mats, tire patches, hose connections, tubing, gaskets, fan belts, washers, in fact, everything but rubber checks |
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| Soldier boys on Saturday afternoon. Washington, D.C. |
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| Sunday in the park. Washington, D.C. |
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| Supreme Court Building. Washington, D.C. |
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| Tires for pictogram |
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| Trailer occupied by war department employee and wife from Pennsylvania. Trailer camp near Alexandria, Virginia |
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| Trash container and fuel oil tank supplied to each trailer in camp. Trailer camp on U.S. 1 outside Alexandria, Virginia |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, D.C.] |
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| [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Children of defense workers playing in "their backyards." Trailer camp, Mount Vernon Highway, Alexandria, Virginia] |
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| Washington Irving High at 15th and Irving Place, New York City, rubber salvage drive. Heeding the request of the President of the United States, high school girls of the Washington Irving Vocational School for Girls bring in the results a treasure hunt from attic to bedroom yielded in their own homes. Left to right: Ann Muzycka, eighteen-year-old senior; Clarence H. Low, chairman of the New York City Salvage Campaign Committee; Henrietta Morris and Susan Balint |
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| Weekend recreation for Uncle Sam's employees. Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. |
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| Wife of torpedo plant worker talks with her neighbor. Trailer camp in Alexandria, Virginia |
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