Scrap Drives

A big way for Americans on the home front to contribute to the war effort in World War II was to collect scrap - metal, rubber, etc. - for repurposing into war materiel. These photos from Leslie Jones show some of those efforts in the Boston area.

Cabinet Cards

 Alfred C. Thurston and H. Thurston, Columbus, Ohio

  

 Couple, Junction City, Kansas, 1885-95

  

 Family portrait, Germany

  

 Family portrait, Nagyvárad, Hungary

   

 Family portrait, Sutton, Nebraska

  

 Gentleman with Dalmation

  

 Ice skating scene

  

 Siri, Edvard and Viva Wallensköld, Helsinki, Finland, 1908

[so that's what Siri looks like :)]

  

 Two women playing, and wearing, cards, Newport, Vermont

[o-kaaay]

  

Two young girls, London, England

High School

These photos of Kentucky high schools are from Lafayette Photo Studio.

 Dunbar High School cheerleaders and gymnasts, 1931

  

 Dunbar High School group, 1931

  

 Dunbar High School group, 1934

  

 Dunbar High School group, 1934

  

 Dunbar High School, Miss Dunbar, 1931

  

 North Middletown High School, pep club, 1941

  

 North Middletown High, 1st Grade, 1941

  

 North Middletown High, pep club, 1942

  

 North Middletown School, Junior Glee Club, 1940

  

North Middletown School, view of dancers on the dance floor from above, 1940

[one of my favorite pictures ever]

George Frederick Kaye

George Frederick Kaye was a photographer from New Zealand who photographed "Kiwi" troops in the North African and Italian theaters during World War II.

 After the enemy's retreat, an Italian civilian searches among the ruins 

of his home in the town of Atessa, Italy, 29 November 1943

  

 Allied infantrymen make their way over the ruins of Cassino in Italy, 

on the day that it fell to the Allied attack, 18 May 1944

  

 Children carrying water through the streets of Gessopalena, Italy, 16 December 1943

  

 D O Long packing machine gun ammunition into a gun carrier 

during the advance to Florence, Italy, 21 August 1944

  

 Dog by the door of a demolished house in Gessopalena, Italy, 

surrounded by rubble, 16 December 1943

  

 Italian musicians and singers performing in the New Zealand 

Forces Club in Florence, Italy, 8 October 1944

  

 Local women and girls fill their containers at the 

community pump in Bari, Italy, ca. October 1943

  

 New Zealand officers watching the Kiwi Concert Party, Volturno Valley, Italy, 12 May 1944

  

 Soldiers examining a knocked out Sherman tank, amongst the ruins 

at Cassino, Italy, 18 May 1944, the day it fell to the Allies

  

Soldiers of the Maori Battalion prepare to move up 

into the line in the Faenza sector, 10 December 1944

Adam MacLay

 Birkenhead double deck steamship moored at the dock, 1905-26

 

 Children sitting with a dog in front of a tent with carpet, 1905-26

  

 Exterior view of a wooden cottage, showing a man and woman with baby on verandah, ca. 1910

  

 Five people in an unidentified park, 1915-20

  

 Group dining outdoors, ca. 1910s

  

 Group of men, boys and one girl, in front of house on lawn, 

with refreshments, cricket set and potatoes, 1905-26

  

 Group portrait of twelve older people in hats 

grouped around a man with walking stick, 1905-26

  

 Man and woman with domestic pets, including two dogs, a cat, and a bird in a cage, 1905-26

  

 Mounted rider from Canterbury Mounted Rifles, 1905-26

  

Outdoor portrait of six women in a snow covered backyard, ca. 1915-20

Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

William George Weigel

William George Weigel was a New Zealand photographer.

 A crowd at Lyttelton who are farewelling troops about to leave to serve 

in World War II. In the centre front is Jessica Sturt (without a hat 

and wearing a print dress) who is farewelling her son, 1940

  

 Country Library Service bus and librarians, Christchurch, 1955

  

 Crowds watching the Inter-Dominion surf life-saving championships between New Zealand and Australia held at New Brighton, Christchurch, 26 February 1950

  

 Karitane nurses holding babies, probably in Christchurch, 1945

  

 Marmaduke Bethell and Thyra Melvase Bethell, in a field of daffodils, 

at Pahau Pastures in Culverden, 1954

  

 Member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force repairing a plane at Wigram aerodrome, 1943

  

 Serving counter at the Christchurch railway station refreshment rooms, 1952

  

 Women's Auxiliary Air Force wireless operators, 1942

  

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand