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"Tractorettes" Working on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Three women work under a Farmall H tractor. International Harvester's "Tractorette" program was intended to teach women to operate and maintain tractors wh...
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Waters Motor Company

Date: 12 15 1945
Description: Herb Pierstorff, mechanic, shown on the left with Merlin Loe, apprentice mechanic, recently discharged veteran of the Armed Forces, at Waters Motor Company...
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Mechanic with International Military Truck

Date: 1944
Description: A man dressed in coveralls and a hat inspects a part on the rear of an International truck built for the U.S. Military. The side panel on the vehicle is li...
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M-5H-6 International Truck Service

Date: 1944
Description: Two men performing service work on an International M-5H-6 six-wheel-drive truck with a cargo body parked on a grease rack outdoors. The truck is marked, "...
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Military Tank Repair Facility

Date: 1942
Description: Men stand in a factory, possibly the Bettendorf Tank Arsenal, used during World War II to repair tanks for the United States military.
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Wisconsin Central Airlines Union Officers

Date: 01 08 1952
Description: Group portrait of the newly elected officers of the Wisconsin Central Airlines Local No. 780, International Association of Machinists. Seated left to right...
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Marine Aircraft Group Plane

Date: 03 1945
Description: Men working on a Marine Aircraft Group plane at Ulithi airport. One man is standing near the nose of the plan, looking inside. He is shirtless and wearing ...
Print

Attention! Mechanics

Date: 10 10 1861
Description: Recruiting poster. At the top is printed "Attention! Mechanics." Underneath is an eagle with a banner in his beak, which reads "Rally, Boys! Rally!" and "Y...
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"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...
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"Yank's Delight"

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Elevated view of three soldiers working on the engine of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The plane h...
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Uncooperative Transmission

Date: 1917
Description: An engineer wearing eyeglasses is kneeling on the ground and working on a transmission while smoking a pipe. Captioned: "Ed Rehm, University of Illinois, s...
Poster

Over There!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a mechanic standing and waving to a silhouette of an airplane taking off; in the background several more silhouetted airplan...

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