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| Description: | Scrap drive at International Harvester dealer. Original caption: "C.J. Moericke, who is dealer at Marion in the Green Bay territory, was receiving scrap fr... |
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| Description: | Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P.... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche... |
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| Description: | Customer standing at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters for the U.S. Truck Conservation Corps and WWII scrap... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw... |
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| Description: | K.M. Fores attending to paperwork at the Rogers Truck & Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Mr. Fores was filling in for his son, Lie... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Model M-5-6 truck manufactured for the U.S. Army at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works in Indiana. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II poster of a bloody dagger with the text, "Remember... and they will stall our production too. If they can." The advertisement was printed fo... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a factory worker hitting a caricature of Adolf Hitler on the head with a tool. Includes the text: "Your tools are weapons... take care of th... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a line of factory workers with a larger image of a "production soldier" behind them. Includes the text: "The badge of the production soldier... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing men whispering to each other, with caricatures of Adolf Hitler and a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) in the background. Includes the... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster encouraging citizens to salvage their scrap metals for the war. Features an illustration of a scrap metal "man" hitch-hiking a ride from... |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the use of scrap metal for war materials. Features illustrations of guns, tanks, ships and other armaments that could be produced using sc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Includes an illustration of a farmer and International Harvester dealer dumping a... |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a World War II scrap drive effort sponsored by Wisconsin Governor Julius Heil. The effort was known as "MacArthur Week" and took place b... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker operates a Magnaflux machine at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "A Magnaflux machine is used to... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men work on what appears to be International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A large hole is in the foreground. |
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