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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Dan Downey, International Harvester blockman from Philadelphia, teaches three women how to operate a Farmall M tractor and a McCormick-Deering harvester-th... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Instructor Mr. Schweitzer reviewing the operation of a Farmall M tractor with a group of women. The women are (L to R): Donna Mehaffy, Oakville; Marian Hul... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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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: | Storefront of the Richartz-Beilfus Implement Co., an International Harvester truck and tractor dealership. At left is W.P. Beilfus, at right is T.C. Richa... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Counter display of Dr. West's Miracle Tuft toothbrush display at Rennebohm Drug Store #7, 901 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Counter display of Dr. West's Miracle Tuft toothbrushes at Rennebohm's store at 204 State Street. |
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| Description: | The counter display for Dr. West's Miracle Tuft toothbrushes at Rennebohm Drug Store #6, 19 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Counter display of Dr. West's Miracle Tuft toothbrushes at Rennebohm Drug Store, 24 West Mifflin Street. A sign advises customers to "Pay Soda Check at Cig... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Counter display of Dr. West's Miracle Tuft toothbrushes at Rennebohm Drug Store #1, 1357 University Avenue at the corner of Randall Avenue. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | M-5 tank produced at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works for the U.S. military. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Female members of the U.S. Coast Guard posing with a male officer and an International K-1 truck outside a garage. The Coast Guard had many International t... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Four members of the U.S. Coast Guard looking out from the back of an International K-6 truck parked on a city street. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Man testing the model 123-SP (self-propelled) combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. The machine was International Harvester's first self-propelled combi... |
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