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"Tractorette" Operating Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
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...
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U.S. Military Crawler Tractors

Date: 1942
Description: Men examining an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The original caption reads: "J.M. Curtis, Los Angeles branch industrial traveler (no hat), e...
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Women Inspecting 37-Millimeter Shells

Date: 1942
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells.
Poster

Your Job Is Your Gun

Date: 1942
Description: Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machin...
Poster

Your Tools Are Weapons

Date: 1942
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...
Poster

Both Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a tank and a tractor, with the text: "Both are weapons our farm and fighting forces depend on you." The poster was printed for the Labor-Man...
Poster

Wear It Proudly

Date: 1942
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...
Poster

Beware

Date: 1942
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...
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Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
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...
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Betty Stevens on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
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 ...
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Woman on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
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...
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Kathryn Mann on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1942
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,...
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Helene George on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Mrs. Helene George driving a Farmall A tractor as part of a "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company. The cla...
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"Tractorette" Student

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of a participant in International Harvester's "Tractorette" class sitting on a Farmall H tractor. The class consisted of 15 women an...
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"Tractorettes" with Instructor

Date: 1942
Description: "Tractorettes" pose with their instructor, McCormick-Deering salesmen Robert L. McCaffrey, on a Farmall H tractor.
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Bettendorf Tank Arsenal Under Construction

Date: 1942
Description: Men work on what appears to be International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory).
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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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Bulldozing Dirt at Bettendorf Tank Arsenal

Date: 1942
Description: A man operates an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a Bucyrus-Erie bulldozer blade inside a factory building. The building is probably Inter...
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Bettendorf Tank Arsenal

Date: 1942
Description: Construction site showing an additional to an International Harvester factory, probably the company's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal.
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Scrap Drive at International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Six men stand outside around a pile of scrap metal in front of the F.V. Russell McCormick-Deering dealership. The metal was collected for a wartime scrap d...

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