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Boy Scouts on Bicycles
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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.
1942
International Harvester Company
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1942
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Scrap Drive at R.H. Gehrke Company
1942
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Teacher and Students participating in World War II Scrap Drive
1942
Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P. Heil's MacArthur Week. The school was thr...
Children Collecting Scrap at North Bright School
1942
Children collecting scrap deposit it on a trailer outside the front door of North Bright School. A sign on the school announces: "MacArthur Week Scrap Collection for Victory / North bright School /...
IH Dealer Collecting Metal for Scrap Drive
1942
Men from Anderson Motor Sales, an International Harvester dealership, collect a load of metal scrap form the farm of Frank Cook. The men are loading the metal into the back of an International truc...
Truck Hauling Tractors for Scrap
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Man pulling a trailer with an International truck for J.G. Larson & Sons, an International Harvester dealership. The trailer is loaded with two old tractors, collected for a scrap drive. Gas pumps ...
