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Circus Cook Tent

Date: 1942
Description: Cooks preparing food for fellow workers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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Grass Fire

Date: 1942
Description: Drawing of a man standing in a field and holding a damper or rake with smoke billowing from the grass.
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Two Men Converse on a Construction Site

Date: 1942
Description: Two men talking on a construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A pile of bricks is in the foreground alon...
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Marines Operating Gun at Camp Elliott

Date: 1942
Description: Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns.
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Man Hardening Tractor Parts in Furnace

Date: 1942
Description: Factory worker hardens tractor parts in "one of a battery of gas-fired box type heat treating furnaces."
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Soldier in Base Kitchen

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier at a base in Panama uses a cleaver to open a can of rhubarb sitting on a counter near a large pot. He is wearing a cap, a sleeveless shirt, and p...
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Man Using Hand-Cranked Corn Sheller

Date: 1942
Description: A man is standing in the open doorway of a farm building using a hand-cranked sheller for corn for horses and calves. There is a galvanized bucket undernea...

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