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| Description: | Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns. |
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| Description: | Helmuth Strobush and his son Jerry haul scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering farm wagon. The tractor is parked near a co-op service... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men and boys use horses, a Farmall H tractor and wagons to haul scrap metal to a pile near railroad tracks. The men are participiting in a wartime scrap dr... |
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| Description: | Men with horses, wagons, cars and trucks are parked alongside railroad tracks near a large scrap metal pile. The men are participating in a wartime scrap d... |
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| Description: | A man stands near scrap metal piled beside a dealership building. The metal was collected for a war time scrap drive. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men from George Schubert and Sons, an International Harvester dealership, examine old farm machines to identify candidates for a wartime scrap drive. The m... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | News broadcaster Bon Turner makes an appeal over the radio to farmers to bring their scrap metal into town to help meet the country's need for vital war ma... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group looks on as a man uses a cutting torch to reduce scrap iron into readily marketable pieces in the farm scrap collection drive in Barton County. Acc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Allan Halvorson (center) standing next to a pile of scrap metal and rubber near his dealership building. The materials were ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | "Freshly painted" crawler tractors (TracTracTors) "emerge from 190 ft. gas-fired drying oven" at International Harvester's Tractor Works. A factory worker ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assemble "shoe chains" on an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker hardens tractor parts in "one of a battery of gas-fired box type heat treating furnaces." |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker hardening links for crawler tractors at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | "Fuel consumption testing device." A factory worker sits in the cab of an International truck at the company's Ft. Wayne Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two young boys in a pile of metal collected from a scrap drive in front of the Farmers Mercantile Company, an International Harvester dealership. A man sta... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men unloading scrap at collection depot established by Ausman Implement Company. The metal was collected for a scrap drive. In the background is a grocery ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A high school band marches down the street during MacArthur Week, a state sponsored scrap drive effort. Crowds of children and adults line both sides of th... |
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