Ration Cans

[Dharmacy]

Here are a couple of intact ration cans I recovered from a hut site in Fredericksburg Va. There were a few cans and some bottles, most of the cans just fell apart but I was able to get two that held together. The first three pics are one can and the last two pics are the other one.

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[Yak1366]

Can you repost your images with some scale and an image of what these were originally?

 

[Dharmacy]

Can you repost your images with some scale and an image of what these were originally?

I can take some pics with a reference for scale. I have never looked for any pics of original ones, I would think that there is not much online about them as they were something that was quickly discarded and probably very few have survived. I was fortunate that these two were solid enough to excavate intact.

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[Dharmacy]

Can you repost your images with some scale and an image of what these were originally?

Here ya go.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

WOW, some nice history you found!