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Photograph

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...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Women Inspect Artillery Shells at West Pullman Works

Date: 11 24 1942
Description: Three female factory workers inspect 40-millimeter artillery shells at International Harvester's West Pullman Works.
Photograph

Making Shells for the Korean War

Date: 06 1953
Description: Men and women employed by Malleable Iron Range Co. making artillery shells to be used in the Korean War.
Photograph

Woman Holding Artillery Shell

Date: 06 1953
Description: Factory worker holding an artillery shell manufactured at Malleable Iron Range Co.
Poster

Success in War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of six long lines of men marching into a factory. Poster text reads: "Success in War — depends on co-operation and ...
Poster

Our Three Lines of National Defense

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of a mass of soldiers with a flag and cannon, and behind them a large ship labeled: "USN" [United States Navy], and...

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