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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... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of war correspondents and photographers on a ship on their way to Australia, February-March, 1942. Byron Darnton, reporter for the New York... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Correspondents' hut at Port Moresby, New Guinea, maintained by the Public Relations Section of the Australian Army. Photograph taken between October and D... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Correspondents' hut from across the main road, Port Moresby, New Guinea. Photograph taken between October and December, 1942. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Rear view of the correspondents' hut, with the tent used by the staff of the Australian soldiers in Port Moresby, New Guinea. This photograph was taken bet... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Lacking other equipment on the beach, native canoes were pressed into service to transfer equipment to larger boats. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of seated young women at "Tractorette" School are instructed by John Schneider outside Nodaway County Implement Company, an International Harvester... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Betty Stevens, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, is riding a Farmall H tractor through J.D. Thompson's ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ada Adkins, recently widowed, learning to use a tractor in a "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Several participants from a class of 22 "Tractorettes" standing around a Farmall tractor with their instructor, John Schneider, proprietor of the Nodaway C... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Phillippa Monachino, a participant in "Tractorette" class, driving a tractor through a field of potatoes. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of female "Tractorette" class participants with their male instructor gather around a Farmall tractor. The original caption reads: "Part of tractor... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of participants in the "Tractorette" program gathers around a Farmall tractor operated by Fred R. Walkley, proprietor of Walkley Farm Equipment Com... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A Red Cross motor corps woman sitting on a Farmall H tractor at Herbert's Hill Angus farm. The original caption reads: "Red Cross motor corps women in Paol... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kathryn Mann of Columbia, Pennsylvania, sits on a Farmall A tractor while Walter Dupes, salesman for J.B. Hostetter & Sons of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania,... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Beulah Ogden, a participant in the "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company, rides a Farmall tractor through an 88-acre farm owned... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jesse Jones, a participant in a "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company, drives a Farmall tractor on the farm of Mrs. Helen Georg... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of "Tractorette" participants are looking on as their teacher, L.J. DeMars, assistant manager of the Blanchard Motor Company in Springfield, is ins... |
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