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Rationing & Recycling
As the country mobilized for total war, everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: gasoline and fuel oil and rubber; bobby pins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar. Everyone also was asked to fight waste and collect scrap metal from which armaments could be made.
As the country mobilized for total war, everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: gasoline and fuel oil and rubber; bobby pins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar. Everyone also was asked to fight waste and collect scrap metal from which armaments could be made.
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Dressing up was hard to do when shoes were made of cardboard and came in only a few colors.
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Men gather around a field lighting truck used during fundraisers for the troops. Ryal Miller of Luverne, Minnesota is seated atop the truck.
Source: Charlie Knoepfler
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Burt Wilson was born January 24, 1933 and grew up in a well to do neighborhood in Sacramento. His father was an engineer at the Luppen and Hawley Plumbing Company. Wilson’s mother and maternal grandparents were German and he had cousins and aunts and uncles in Germany and sent them . . .
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Two children deliver metal for the war effort to a Mobile scrap yard.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (MN-528 E)
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For maybe the first time in U.S. history, every citizen seemed involved in the war effort.
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A gas purchase on a lonely road nearly leads to a fatal shooting.
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Poster urging those at home to join a car club to conserve gas. Created by Von Schmidt, 1944
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-200(S)-PSC-16)
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Jim Sherman was born on August 20, 1935 in Luverne. and grew up at 503 North Estey Street. His grandfather, “Doc” Sherman, was a beloved doctor in town, and his father worked in the local bank. As a member of the “home guard,” his father also patrolled the neighborhood at . . .
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Women's shoes were so precious that some college girls walked barefoot in the rain.
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A Civil War monument in front of the Luverne Courthouse, 1941. The cannon and cannon balls would later be donated as scrap.
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Women of Luverne at a Red Cross sewing bee, 1941.
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Calling on citizens to help lessen the demand for store-bought food. Created by artist Robert Gwathney.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-368)
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A man buys defense stamps from the post office in Southington, Connecticut. May 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-041949-D)
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Kids purchase defense stamps at the Beaver Creek Post Office, 1942.
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Ration Book from Marguerite Hoh of Luverne. It reads "Red Tokens"? and "Blue Tokens"? on it.
Source: Marguerite Hoh
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The war ration book of Luverne's Jim Sherman.
Source: Jim Sherman
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Signing up for sugar and food rationing in Taos, New Mexico. February 1943.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-019115-C)
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Jim Sherman's ration stamps.
Source: Jim Sherman
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During the war everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: gasoline and fuel oil and rubber; bobby pins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar; canned goods and cigarettes and the matches needed to . . .
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Windsor, Vermont collects aluminum scraps for war production. August 1941.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-045247-D)
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