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WW II Defense Work

Date: 1944
Description: Two female sheet metal workers fabricating engine cowlings for Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo and transport planes at the International Harvester's Aub...
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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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Waukesha CAP

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Description: Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o...
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Rosie the Riveter

Date: 09 1943
Description: A real-life Rosie the Riveter instructs journalists on the Aviation Writers' Tour at the Goodyear Aircraft Factory. This plant manufactured Martin Marauder...
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WWI Aerial Emblem

Date: 07 1917
Description: A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing.
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Royal Canadian Air Force Salvages B-34 Bomber

Date: 1944
Description: Royal Canadian Air Force men using an International TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) to salvage a B-34 bomber at Shell Camp Lake, Nova Scotia.
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Consolidated Paper Glider Floor

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: CG-4A glider floor manufactured by Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, as part of a World War II military contract. Executive Jim Plzak is examinin...
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Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam...
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Gliders for the War

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military.
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Gliders for the War

Date: 01 25 1943
Description: An employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company holds up a structure for it to be photographed. The object is thought to be a prototype...
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Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 02 06 1943
Description: Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company preparing for a strength and deflection test of a plastic product being developed by the co...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: Carl Husome, an employee of the Consolidated Paper Company in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of a prototype for a m...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Two employees, Bob Schutz and Louis Timmerman, watch as rolls of stock are cut five sheets at a time. This procedure was necessary to insure uniformity of...
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Gliders for the War

Date: 05 29 1943
Description: Four employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company with the first glider floor manufactured by the company for the military during World...
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Prototype Plastic Glider

Date: 05 07 1943
Description: Floor for a military glider constructed of a paper-based plastic laminate by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers of Wisconsin Rapids. This photog...
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Glider Floor

Date: 05 29 1943
Description: Glider floor constructed of a paper-based plastic laminate manufactured by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids during ...
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Group with Czechloslovak Relief Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: A group of two men and two women stand near an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service with the Czechoslovakian Army ...
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Lieutenant and Hostesses with Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: First Lieutenant K.J. Fogle is standing in the cab of an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service with the Czechoslova...
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Hostesses with International Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: Ruth Ellison, TWA hostess, looks into an an International D-15-M (Metro) truck converted into an ambulance and sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service w...
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma...

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