Photograph
Gladys Skipka with Farmall Tractor and Potato Digger
| Elevated view of Gladys Skipka using a Farmall tractor and a potato digger to work on a 71-acre potato farm. The original caption reads: "Gladys Skipka of Hicksville, New York, became a tractor operator six years ago when she was sixteen to take the place of her father who had died. Miss Skipka and her mother operate a 71-acre potato farm." Hicksville is in Oyster Bay Township, Nassau County N.Y. |
| Image ID: | 50952 |
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| Creation Date: | 1942 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Hicksville |
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| State: | New York |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company photo albums, circa 1899-1965 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 7Z, Album 596, Pg.106 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| This photograph was included in the International Harvester publication "News and Views of the Tractorettes: Food for Victory" [McCormick Mss 6z, file 496, pg.28]. International Harvester Company announced the "Tractorette" program in 1942. The plan was intended to address the farm labor shortage created by U.S. war mobilization. The plan called for local dealers to offer free training for thousands of farm women and girls in the operation of tractors and other farm machinery. According to available resources, including census records, the Social Security Death Index, and an obituary in a Savannah GA newspaper: Gladys Skipka Farber was born 06 Aug 1920 in Suffolk County NY. She was married to Rev. William W. Farber, Sr. She died 21 Jul 1996 in Savannah, and was survived by two sons, William W. Farber, Jr. and Michael T. Farber, and two daughters, Kathleen Burnham and Particia G. Maryon, as well as 7 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. She and her husband (former Corporal in the U.S. Army Air Corps) are buried in the Beaufort SC National Cemetery. Contact askmccormick@wisconsinhistory.org for more information. |
| Farms |
| Outdoor photography |
| Women |
| Work clothes |
| Hats |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Field crops |
| Fields (Agriculture) |
| Potatoes |
| Tractors |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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