Scrap metal being loaded onto boat from junkyard in Ogdensburg
Junk yard full of scrap metal and parts, boat in background being loaded with scrap metal. Starting in 1938 and 1939, the US sold scrap metal for shipment to Japan. Ogdensburg, NY off Ford Street. Circa 1940. This sale of metal to Japan would stop by 1941 when the US entered WW II against Japan.
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