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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers machining parts for cream separators and International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. An original caption identifies them as "Milwauke... |
| Date: | 04 17 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo... |
| Date: | 05 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling artillery or "machine gun" carts for the United States military during World War I at International Harvester's McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of fuselage Repair Section of the American Expeditionary Force 2nd Aviation Instruction Center near Tours, France. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | British-built Sopwith Camels at the American Expeditionary Force 2nd Aviation Instruction Center near Tours, France. The Sopwith Camel, manufactured by the... |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | Khaki-covered Bibles being made by the American Bible Society for American fighters during World War I. The goal was one million testaments. All the worker... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of the inside of a shipping manufacturer, with men working near a ship in drydock. Text at bottom reads: "On The Job For V... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertising illustration promoting the use of tractors and engine power over horses and horse-drawn implements. Shows Uncle Sam writing the words "Modern I... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a team of two horses drawing a coal wagon, with a man in the back of the tipped wagon unloading coal with a shovel. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with cartoon depicting three men armed with bayoneted rifles, standing in front of a pillar, with factory buildings in the background. The men are w... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first, silhouetted figures are working in the yard in front of a large house with a public school and a factory with... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, a man wearing a hat and smoking a cigar is carrying a sack labeled "Agitator." He is demanding of a... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, an oversized man is getting ready to swing a sledgehammer, which is labeled "Misunderstanding," get... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel showing a man with a sledgehammer standing on a terrace labeled: "American Industries." At his feet is a piece of paper ti... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel in which Uncle Sam is riding on a wagon pulled by two horses, with text that reads "— Over Here —, and on the right near s... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a large group of women at the Nash Motor Company building. A few people are looking out from open windows in the building. Capti... |
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