Taken in a Washington, D.C. warehouse in 1942. These items were apparently collected during a wartime salvage drive.
Photo by Marjory Collins. [American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).