Boy Scouts on Bicycles | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Boy Scouts on Bicycles

Boy Scouts on Bicycles | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society
WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitched to an International truck and is parked in front of a McCormick-Deering dealership operated by R.H. Gehrke Company. The Scouts helped collect scrap metal during Governor Julius P. Heil's MacArthur Week. The troop of eighteen boys was divided in four divisions and the boys went out among the farms on their bicycles. They stopped at various farms, asked permission to collect scrap and, when it was granted, gathered it in convenient piles to be collected later by the junk dealer's motor truck.
DESCRIPTION
WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitched to an International truck and is parked in front of a McCormick-Deering dealership operated by R.H. Gehrke Company. The Scouts helped collect scrap metal during Governor Julius P. Heil's MacArthur Week. The troop of eighteen boys was divided in four divisions and the boys went out among the farms on their bicycles. They stopped at various farms, asked permission to collect scrap and, when it was granted, gathered it in convenient piles to be collected later by the junk dealer's motor truck.
RECORD DETAILS
Image ID:6573
Creation Date: 1942
Creator Name:International Harvester Company
City:Black Creek
County:Outagamie
State:Wisconsin
Collection Name:International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965
Genre:Photograph
Original Format Type:photographic print, b&w
Original Format Number:MCC MSS 7Z, Album 563, pg. 132
Original Dimensions:10 x 8 inches
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This image appeared in "Harvester World" magazine (June 1942, p. 8).
SUBJECTS
Scouts and scouting
Clothing and dress
Agricultural machinery industry
Industrial buildings
War work
World War, 1939-1945
Men
Outdoor photography
Youth
Storefronts
Signs and signboards
Bicycles
Trailers
Trucks
Portraits, Group

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