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- Description:
- A crane, brick warehouse buildings and several open train cars full of tin scrap collected for the war recycling effort, at the Simon Iron and Steel Corporation, 634 North Cedar Street, in Lansing (Mich.). A city Public Works Division dump truck can also be seen.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- A crane and several open train cars full of tin scrap collected for the war recycling effort, at the Simon Iron and Steel Corporation, 634 North Cedar Street, in Lansing (Mich.).
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- City trucks and volunteer workers for Lansing's first tin can collection for the war recycling effort.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Children bring bags of metal for recycling to a Michigan State College R.O.T.C. truck in front of the State Theater in East Lansing, Mich.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- A group of unidentified women and a man in a Neighborhood War Club planning a nylon stockings collection drive for the war effort. A sign in the photograph reads "Keep 'em on the run. Stocking Salvage."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Two unidentified women with strings of old household keys, in front of a display of cans for collecting keys for recycling for the war effort.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- An unidentified little boy prepares tin cans for the war recycling effort the night before Lansing's first scrap metal drive.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- This collection consists of approximately 320 photographs from Lansing Civilian Defense preparedness activities, circa 1942 to 1944. Subjects include training and preparation for air raids, bombing, and blackouts; fundraising and recycling; Red Cross and medical preparation; communications including homing pigeons; public safety, police, and fire; vocational education; the draft; parades; and other related activities. The Civilian Defense Control Center was located in the old City Hall on the northeast corner of Capitol and Ottawa avenues. A poster showing all of the official United States Civilian Defense insignia can be seen <a href="https://images.northwestern.edu/multiresimages/inu:dil-23949900-48cb-43a0-9255-1788e52211ac">here</a>.
- Date Created:
- [1942 TO 1944]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Volunteer workers at Lansing's first tin can collection drive, for materials to be recycled for the war effort. The women in the photograph are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Children give tin cans for theatre tickets at the Gladmer Theater. The cans were to be recycled for the war effort.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
