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Item
Title
D14495-1
Date(s)
- 1943-05-04 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Poultry on Garbage Dump. Man holds plucked turkey amid waste and debris. Although the reason for this photograph is unknown, reports of food waste at the City Dump were reported in by the War Food Committee in the newspaper in August of 1943. Many foods, including proteins, were rationed as the American homeland fought to feed its growing number of soldiers.
Refuse disposal--Tacoma--1940-1950; Poultry--Tacoma; World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Tacoma;