This photograph inspired the T-shirts the Butler Art Center is offering as a fundraiser for an exhibit of 1940s scrap metal drive photographs.

The Butler Art Center is beginning a push to fund a photography show featuring photos from the 1940s scrap drive in Butler led by Armco Steel for efforts during World War II.

The Art Center has acquired thousands of negatives that were being thrown away, and there are quite a few that feature Butler coming together to collect scrap metal to be melted down for the military.

The photos need to be printed, matted, and framed.

As a way of funding this show, The Art Center is selling T-shirts with a design inspired by one of the photographs, a picture of five boys pulling a wagon of scrap metal they have collected.

The initial goal is to sell 50 shirts in three weeks, after which they will be printed and shipped.

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