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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
Description: Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line.
Drawing

"To Catch a Thief" 21

Date: 1945
Description: Costume sketch of a gold, plumed headdress with veil created for Grace Kelly in "To Catch a Thief".
Photograph

Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...
Photograph

Tuberculosis Bus

Date: 1945
Description: State Board of Health mobile tuberculosis x-ray unit. The ability to bring tuberculosis diagnostic technology to all parts of the state greatly aided the v...
Photograph

Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1945
Description: People on observation tower looking at Sturgeon Bay.
Photograph

Bennett Studio Gift Shop

Date: 1945
Description: Gift shop at the Bennett Studio. The pictured individuals include Ruth Bennett Dyer and Oliver Reese. In addition to operating the photography studio, the...
Photograph

James Parkin

Date: 1945
Description: James Parkin, and a woman in eyeglasses, speak with another woman in a paper gown, apparently a patient.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Holocaust Survivors

Date: 1945
Description: Group portrait of Holocaust survivors in quarantine after World War II; Smalands Anneberg, Sweden, Summer.
Photograph

Group of Holocaust Survivors Listen to Orchestra

Date: 1945
Description: Group of Holocaust survivors who were in quarantine after WWII listen to an orchestra playing on their behalf outdoors; Smalands Anneberg, Sweden, Summer.
Photograph

Portrait of Polish Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Sweden

Date: 1945
Description: Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors in a camp at Holsbybrunn, Sweden.
Photograph

Portrait of Rose and Walter Peltz

Date: 1945
Description: Portrait of Rose and Walter Wolf Peltz.
Photograph

Woman and Man with Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: A woman is sitting behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor for a demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm....
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Group at Hinsdale Demonstration

Date: 1945
Description: Groups of men examine International equipment on display outdoors at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. The equipment on display include...
Photograph

Dicky Chapelle in Iwo Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o...
Photograph

Dicky Chapelle in Iwo Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o...
Poster

Plan Now for the Bigger 7th War Loan - Through Pay-Roll Savings

Date: 1945
Description: Treasury Design, unknown title and number. The poster features a crowd of civilians lined up in a V-formation and waving cash in the air.
Photograph

International Harvester Parade Float

Date: 1945
Description: Me and women line the sidewalks to watch an International Harvester parade float go by. The float is decorated with uniformed men in a jeep, and palm trees...
Photograph

Truck with Farm Implement Display for War Hero

Date: 1945
Description: A man and a woman standing in a driveway speak with the driver of an International truck loaded with a tractor, farm implements, and a descriptive display....
Photograph

Home of War Hero

Date: 1945
Description: Men, women, and children sit on rocking chairs or on the wooden floor of the front porch of a house. A truck is parked to the right of the home. The home i...
Photograph

Cannon Inspection at St. Paul Works

Date: 1945
Description: Factory worker James Matzke raises the barrel of a 20mm cannon onto a receiving block to be inspected by Beverly Ackerman at International Harvester's St. ...

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