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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... |
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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... |
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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: | Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a World War II poster reading: "Another Shot at Hitler; A drop of oil may save a pound of metal", with an illustration of two hands ho... |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster produced by the Labor Management Production Drive Committee urging people to share automobile rides. The text on the poster r... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed men study a map placed on a desk. The original caption reads: "STUDYING THE BATTALION'S NEXT HOME. Lt. Col. D.L. Van Syckle (right), comman... |
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| Description: | A group of uniformed military men sit in wooden chairs inside a building at Camp Perry as they are instructed on various kinds of machinery. Two chalkboard... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men assemble a patriotic display consisting of International machinery, a T-9 Tractractor (crawler tractor), a cannon, coils of barbed wire, signs, and... |
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| Description: | S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Quad City Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Chester E. Seif signs a pledge of cooperation with Governor Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. H.J. Brosnahan (left), mana... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun on display. A sign on the right identifies it as a 20mm anti-aircraft gun manufactured by the Pontiac Motor Division. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing Navy Pier in Chicago. There is snow on the ground, the lake is frozen and two lines of planes are flying overhead forming a "V" patter... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a silhouette of a soldier with his gun, walking across a map of Germany outlined in red. The word "GERMANY" is printed in gray over it. I... |
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| Description: | Holiday card with an atomic bomb exploding with "Joy, Peace, Health, Happiness and Good Will" flying out of it. Below is the verse: "The atom bomb brings g... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the American and Republic of China flags tied together with a cord with tassels. Above is "UNITED STATES" in a Chinese themed typeface. B... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a military theme. The card has a red, white, blue and embossed border. In the center is a "V" made of a red, white and blue ribbon on the... |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground. Four United States warplanes fly overhead and buildings with an American flag appear in the back... |
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| Description: | Holiday card for the 42d Rainbow Division. On a light green background is an illustration at an angle of a soldier, a church and a red, yellow and blue rai... |
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