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Workers Celebrate War Production at McCormick Works

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and...
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World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Scrap drive at International Harvester dealer. Original caption: "C.J. Moericke, who is dealer at Marion in the Green Bay territory, was receiving scrap fr...
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Boy Scouts on Bicycles

Date: 1942
Description: WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche...
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Workers Load Wagon Components onto Railroad Car

Date: 04 17 1918
Description: Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo...
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Workers Assemble Gun Carts at McCormick Works

Date: 05 06 1918
Description: Factory workers assembling artillery or "machine gun" carts for the United States military during World War I at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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Boxed Artillery Cart Ready for Shipment

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Boxed 240 mm mortar cart ready for shipment to the U.S. military from International Harvester's McCormick Works. Includes a trench mortar barrel. A man is ...
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Aircraft Torpedo Manufacture

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Two women inspect a drill press at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "Dust prevention and cleanliness is so important as a factor...
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Aircraft Torpedo Manufacture

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Male and female workers producing torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "A battery of acetylene torches is here show...
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Woman Repairs Electrical Motor

Date: 05 28 1943
Description: Female factory worker winds a motor in the electrical shop at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Men Planning for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal

Date: 10 02 1942
Description: Railroad track layout and loading docks of the southwest corner of International Harvester's tank arsenal at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works (vi...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal

Date: 06 29 1942
Description: Interior of the tank arsenal at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works. Original caption reads: "Looking west at Micro Westco work in bay no. 1 between...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal Assembly Line

Date: 03 22 1943
Description: Partially assembled M-7 tanks at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works. Original caption reads: "Looking East in Bay #2 from Col. 241 - End Over Cradl...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal Assembly Line

Date: 03 22 1943
Description: Partially assembled M-7 tanks at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works. Original caption reads: "Looking East in Bay #3 from Col. 317 - Hull Assembly ...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal

Date: 03 22 1943
Description: Partially assembled and completed M-7 tanks at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works. Original caption reads: "Looking East in Bay #4 from Col. 403 - ...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal Shipping Dock

Date: 03 22 1943
Description: M-7 tanks in storage on the shipping dock at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works. Original caption reads: "Looking southwest in Bays #7 and 8 from C...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal at Bettendorf Works

Date: 03 23 1943
Description: Quad-Cities tank arsenal at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works as seen looking southwest from the roof of the office building.
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New Female Employee Training

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: A group of recently hired factory female workers receive their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for...
Poster

Both Working for Victory

Date: 1943
Description: Poster of a woman driving a Red Cross truck and a woman on a Farmall tractor with the text "Now farm work is war work," and "Join the Farm Victory Voluntee...
Poster

Remember

Date: 1942
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...

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