Scrap Pile for Employees of the American Thread Co.

Scrap Pile for Employees of the American Thread Co.

Black and white photographic print of "Scrap Pile for Employees of the American Thread Co." The "Official Salvage Depot" posters with their blue eagles were printed during World War II by the War Production Board, and were part of the "Salvage for Victory" campaign. The lot being used is on Main Street in Willimantic, CT, across the street from Mill No. 6. The brick apartment building at upper left is still there, on Union Street (the photo shows the rear of the building). When this photo was taken, there was a store on the first floor. The wooden building on the lower left is also still there, and is now an apartment house; when this photo was taken, it, too, had a store on the first floor. The residential building on the upper right, at the top of the stone retaining wall, was on Union Street. The building on the lower right, then a gas station, is now a barber shop. Photographer unknown.