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Item
Title
D15507-5
Date(s)
- 1943-06 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Women Block Leaders of Civilian Defense at scrap pile. Three women lift an iron bedstead into machinery at the junk yard. The sorted scrap will be reprocessed at a steel mill. The salvage pile, known as "Scrap Iron Acres," is adjacent to the Pacific Match Company plant. L - R Dorothy Rouse, Ahtol Engleys, and Winifred Moore. (T.Times, 6/11/1943, p.20)
World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma; Salvage--1940-1950; Recycling--1940-1950; World War, 1939-1945--Women--Tacoma; Rouse, Dorothy; Engleys, Ahtol; Moore, Winifred;