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Bong on Leave

Date: 1943
Description: Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a...
Photograph

French General Office at Paris

Date: 1943
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester general office at Paris. The office was operated by the Cima-Wallut Machines Agricoles McCormick et Deering, S....
Photograph

Strand Theater and Surrounding Buildings

Date: 1943
Description: The corner of N. 5th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. Landmarks from left to right: Wisconsin Roof (dancing), Strand Theater, Miller High Life Spa, and the ...
Photograph

Communist Party Rally

Date: 1943
Description: A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,...
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Experimental Combine

Date: 1943
Description: Lee and Gray, International Harvester employees, and Fowler McCormick, looking at an experimental combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. A Farmall tracto...
Postcard

Wisconsin Avenue's Court of Honor

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue, looking east from Court of Honor. Caption reads: "Court of Honor, Looking East, Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
Photograph

International Truck at Proving Grounds

Date: 1943
Description: Men look on as a man drives an International truck on a test track. The truck may be a model designed for the U.S. military. The photograph may have been t...
Photograph

Men in Scrap Yard

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of two men wearing business suits standing near an automobile and a truck in a scrap yard as part of a Harvester World story on World ...
Photograph

Navy Machinery Inspection

Date: 1943
Description: Fowler McCormick and other International Harvester executives look on as men stand at stations with truck engines at the U.S. Navy Motor Vehicle Maintenanc...
Poster

Buy War Bonds for Fighting Power Today... and Buying Power Tomorrow!

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 24, "Happy Family." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a naval battle commencing on stormy waters in shades of ...
Poster

"'Tis a Fine, Patriotic Thing To Do" - Share Your Car

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 2, "Policeman." The poster features a police officer with cars passing behind him. The subtitle below the main captio...
Photograph

Mattingly Tractor & Impl. Co.

Date: 1943
Description: Exterior view through trees of a store operated by Mattingly Tractor & Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership.
Photograph

Lemann's McCormick-Deering Dealership

Date: 1943
Description: Exterior view of storefront of Lemann's McCormick-Deering Equipment, an International Harvester dealership operated by B. Lemann & Bro., Inc. A large indus...
Photograph

Algona Implement Co. Building

Date: 1943
Description: Automobiles and trucks are parked in a row in front of a former International Harvester dealership. A sign on the side of the building advertises 7 up soda...
Photograph

Day's Service Station Highway 77

Date: 1943
Description: View across road of Day's Service Station with gasoline pumps, maps and signs out front. The right half of the building is one-story high, and the left hal...
Photograph

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"

Date: 1943
Description: Humphrey Bogart (playing Rick Blaine) faces Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund) in a scene still from "Casablanca" (Warner 1942). This tender moment is from the ...
Photograph

Rudy Lein

Date: 1943
Description: Rudy Lein, owner of the Standard Oil Gas Station, standing next to an air pump outside of the station. He wears a Standard Service cap and a bowtie. Behind...
Postcard

Packard Avenue

Date: 1943
Description: Photographic postcard view looking north on Barnard Avenue from Packard Avenue. There are businesses, automobiles and pedestrians on both sides of the stre...

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