The Victory Home: 
Conservation--Paper

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Updated 11/12/04.
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“Scrap Your Fat, Lady!”
 

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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program.
Washington schoolchild brings a load of scrap paper to school once a week.
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Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school.
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Schoolchildren contributing to their class pile of scrap paper. Classes compete for greatest amount.

After bringing their scrap paper to school, each class stacks their contributions outside the classroom door. Here the student council is shown judging one pile. Classes compete for the greatest amount on a chart kept in the hall.

Schoolchildren bring their scrap paper from their classrooms into the cellar, where it is picked up by paper company truck.
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Schoolboy volunteers go from house to home collecting scrap paper.
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Washington schoolchildren also collect string to tie their bundles of scrap paper. In the meantime they studied the history and manufacture of string.
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Tying up bundles of scrap paper at public school.

Bales of pressed scrap paper being unloaded from hydraulic press in District retail paper company.

Stacking bales of pressed paper in a retail junkyard.
 
At the American Legion booth for collecting scrap paper. Chillicothe, MO.

Southington, CT. Boys collecting paper for war conversion.
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Washington, D.C. Weighing collected scrap paper at a Negro grammar school.
 

This photo is in the National Archives NAIL Digital Copies collection.

Conservation of waste paper will save millions annually for Uncle Sam.
 

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Posters

This poster is in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Waste helps the enemy
 

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Wanted for victory

Get in the scrap

Keep scrapping
 

This poster is in the American Memory collection By the People, For the People:  Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Save scrap for victory! : Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rags
 

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Pamphlets

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These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

War against waste
 

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Ads

These ads are in the Ad*Access collection of Duke University.

Listing of ads for conservation (all kinds)
 

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