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Junkmen Comb Metro Roads, Toronto's mini-junkmen tour Metro roads, scrounging for castoffs and other debris to be sold as scrap metal. Metro Works Dep(...)
Junkmen Comb Metro Roads, Toronto's mini-junkmen tour Metro roads, scrounging for castoffs and other debris to be sold as scrap metal. Metro Works Dep(...)

Junkmen Comb Metro Roads, Toronto's mini-junkmen tour Metro roads, scrounging for castoffs and other debris to be sold as scrap metal. Metro Works Dep(...)

Date10/15/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Junkmen Comb Metro Roads; Toronto's mini-junkmen tour Metro roads; scrounging for castoffs and other debris to be sold as scrap metal. Metro Works Department employs 14 collectors who trundle their carts through streets. Above; one sits out rush-hour.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0009056F
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