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Sales Girls Distribute War Bonds at World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
Description: Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s...
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Uncle Sam Plowing

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Description: Man wearing an Uncle Sam costume plowing with a team of horses for an agricultural extension demonstration. It is likely the event took place during World...
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MacArthur Week Scrap Collection

Date: 1942
Description: Men working on a "MacArthur Week" scrap drive near an International Harvester dealership. Two men are on the flatbed of a truck, and there is also a horse-...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov...
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Woodville HS Booster Club Promoting Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: A group of children, including members of the Woodville High School Booster Club, stand near a pile of scrap metal. Some of the children are holding musica...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men and boys use horses, a Farmall H tractor and wagons to haul scrap metal to a pile near railroad tracks. The men are participiting in a wartime scrap dr...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men with horses, wagons, cars and trucks are parked alongside railroad tracks near a large scrap metal pile. The men are participating in a wartime scrap d...
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Back Our Girls Over There

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring a woman in a navy blue uniform working at a switchboard that has the symbol of the Y.W.C.A abpve it. Outside the window behind...
Poster

Service. Fall In!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman in a National League for Woman's Service uniform with a cape, riding a horse and carrying an American flag. Aro...

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