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| Description: | Men, possibly soldiers, driving an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The photograph was taken by F.J. Delaney for International Harvester Compan... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men examining an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The original caption reads: "J.M. Curtis, Los Angeles branch industrial traveler (no hat), e... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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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: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three women work under a Farmall H tractor. International Harvester's "Tractorette" program was intended to teach women to operate and maintain tractors wh... |
| 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 tank and an Inernational Harvester combine (harvester-thresher) with the text "All Harvester products are war products...either for offens... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| 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 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... |
| 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: | Poster showing a man eating a balanced meal and getting plenty of sleep in order to help win the war. The poster was printed for the Labor-Management Produ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Although handwriting identifies this photograph as "Machine gun supporting tank attack," it is likely, since the print is also identified as having been ta... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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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: | 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... |
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