Books for salvage

Ministry of Information poster entitled ‘Another great British Salvage campaign’ showing how books could be salvaged, 1942-1945, Catalogue ref: INF 2/47

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Another great British Salvage campaign

70 MILLION BOOKS COLLECTED

50,000,000 books in 11 months

70,000,000 books in 14 months – up to December 1943

Scrutineers sort the books into three categories…

1 Repulping for munitions

2 Restocking blitzed libraries

3 For Services’ reading

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