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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines searching for Japanese soldiers with an International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and bulldozer on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marsh... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowd with two sailors hugging each other. Sailor with his back to the camera is Seabee B. O. Pledger; other sailor is unknown. They are celebrating V-J Da... |
| Date: | 11 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry, honorary president of the Wisconsin War Fund, and Frank Ross, president, signing a check for $500,000.00. |
| Date: | 08 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Unidentified executive of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division sitting in a folding transport chair, produced as part of the company's war work... |
| Date: | 11 1943 |
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| Description: | Lightweight folding transport chair produced by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company, Wisconsin Rapids, as part of the company's war develop... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | CG-4A glider floor manufactured by Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, as part of a World War II military contract. Executive Jim Plzak is examinin... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Consolidated Paper Company factory showing the large treater used in the manufacture of glider parts during World War II. Ralph Turne... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | A Consolidated Paper Company employee watches the paper impregnation process whereby the company made a plastic laminate product used in the manufacture of... |
| Date: | 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company check the quality of the laminate product emerging from the dry end of the treater. The laminate was manuf... |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military. |
| Date: | 01 25 1943 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company holds up a structure for it to be photographed. The object is thought to be a prototype... |
| Date: | 02 06 1943 |
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| Description: | Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company preparing for a strength and deflection test of a plastic product being developed by the co... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Consolidated Paper Company watches what is apparently a test of a part being manufactured by the company as part of its contract to deve... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Carl Husome, an employee of the Consolidated Paper Company in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of a prototype for a m... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company (Del Rowland and Carl Husome), in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company prepares for a strength test of a product being developed by the compan... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Prototype glider floor turned on its side on two saw horses to be photographed. The glider was being developed by the Plastics Division of the Consolidate... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the construction of the glider floor manufactured by the Consolidated Paper Company as part of its war effort during World War II. |
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