Piles of scrap rubber during WWII

As this big pile of used auto tires indicates, the United States with its many passenger cars has in discarded tires a large source of reclaimed rubber for use in the war effort. Image date: ca. 1942.

Image ID: 001768

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Image size: 6.3 Mpixels (18.1 MB uncompressed) - 2769x2289 pixels (9.2x7.6 in / 23.4x19.4 cm at 300 ppi)

Image keywords: 1900s, 20th-century, Americas, Artifacts-Objects, Eon2424, EonBudget, Modern-Industrial, Photographs, WWII, War-Conflict, World War II, homefront, rationing, scrap rubber, tires, war efforts, wars