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Factory Workers Assembling Airplane Engine Cowling

Date: 1944
Description: Factory workers assembling an engine cowling for the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo and transport airplane during World War II at International Harvest...
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Combine Assembly Line at East Moline Works

Date: 1944
Description: Men working on combines (harvester-threshers) on an assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and w...
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Sales Counter at International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1944
Description: Elevated view of two men standing behind the sales counter at an International Harvester dealership. The men are standing beneath a sign for "International...
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Sales Counter at International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1944
Description: Two men talking at the sales counter of an International Harvester dealership. Advertisements adorn the counter and parts bins are in the background. The d...
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Parts Counter at IHC Dealership

Date: 1944
Description: Employees at the parts counter of the International Harvester McCormick-Deering dealership of Hammer-Staunton Farm & Ranch Equipment. Ed Hammer, the propr...
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Customers Lined Up at International Harvester Dealership Parts Counter

Date: 1944
Description: Farmers lined up along the parts counter of the Snake River Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. The store was managed by George Watki...
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Parts Counter at International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1944
Description: Customers at the parts counter of an International Harvester dealership owned by the Chisholm Brothers of Snake River Valley, Idaho. Behind the counter (le...
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Mechanic Working on Tractor Engine

Date: 1944
Description: Mechanic taking apart a tractor engine in the service department of the Snake River Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. An Internatio...
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Mechanics at Work Inside International Harvester Service Shop

Date: 1944
Description: Mechanics at work in the service shop of an International Harvester dealership, working among several disassembled McCormick-Deering tractors, engines, and...
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International Truck in Bonneville Salt Flats Marsh

Date: 1944
Description: International truck making its way through the Salduro Marsh of the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover on the Utah-Nevada border. The original caption rea...
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Marines Using Crawler Tractor on Landing Craft

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) with a Bucyrus Erie shovel on an LCM (Landing Craft, Materiel) at Roi during ...
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Modern Steam Locomotive

Date: 1944
Description: The Pennsylvania Railroad purchased this innovative steam engine that was built to pull up to 125 loaded cars at 50 miles per hour.
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U.S. Marines

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marine Corps engineers excavating sand and rock with a steam shovel and a fleet of International trucks in the Pavuvu Islands. The International Harve...
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Main Street, Looking North from Davenport Street

Date: 1944
Description: View of intersection with pedestrians crossing the street in the town central business district. Businesses include three drugstores, a hotel, and a clothi...
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U.S. Marines Using International Crawler Tractors

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using International crawler tractors (TracTracTors). The photo caption reads: "Marines 'mopping up' on Namur Island in the Marshalls use the...
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International TD-9 Diesel Crawler Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Soldiers, supplies and an International TD-9 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) on a beach at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II....
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U.S. Marines Using International Crawler Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: Marines ride through a creek on a trailer pulled by an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor).
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International KR-11 Truck

Date: 1944
Description: An International KR-11 truck with a 161-inch wide body chassis parked by Fort Wayne Works.
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Combine Assembly Line at East Moline Works

Date: 1944
Description: Elevated view of men and women working on a combine (harvester-thresher) assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works.
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Dewey Presidential Campaign Train

Date: 1944
Description: Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate aboard the campaign train, making a stop in Baraboo.

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