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Beaver Dam International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1943
Description: Exterior of Albert Kaepernick Jr.'s McCormick-Deering farm equipment dealership. A poster in the front window reads: "Throw your scrap into the fight!".
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Fun Travel Adventure

Date: 12 1968
Description: Cover of "Fun Travel Adventure," an underground newspaper, depicting a photomontage of soldiers at Iwo Jima with an oversized, purple flower replacing the ...
Photograph

Fund Raising Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War...
Photograph

Scrap Drive Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster requesting scrap metals, paper, rags, and rubber for the World War II effort. The text on the poster reads: "Get in the Scrap...
Photograph

War Poster Encouraging Use of Oil

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a World War II poster reading: "Another Shot at Hitler; A drop of oil may save a pound of metal", with an illustration of two hands ho...
Photograph

World War II Ride Sharing Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster produced by the Labor Management Production Drive Committee urging people to share automobile rides. The text on the poster r...
Photograph

International Harvester War Poster

Date: 1943
Description: Photographic copy of a poster used in International Harvester factories used to promote work attendance during wartime. The poster features an illustration...
Photograph

Harvester Battalions Poster

Date: 1944
Description: Photographic copy of an illustrated poster featuring uniformed International Harvester Company servicemen and women marching in a procession away from fact...
Photograph

International Harvester Wartime Display

Date: 1944
Description: Men and women look at an International Harvester Company display featuring illustrations, posters, and machinery parts used in wartime work. The text in th...
Photograph

Russian Attache at Harvester War Display

Date: 1944
Description: Colonel I. Sarayev, Russian military attache of the Russian Embassy, discusses Harvester war products with W.O. Maxwell of the Consumer Relations Departmen...
Photograph

Opening Night of Production Exposition

Date: 02 28 1944
Description: Elevated view of the crowd and exhibits at the opening night of the First National Labor-Management Production Exposition.
Photograph

Men at Harvester Exhibit

Date: 1944
Description: Charles E. Wilson, Executive Vice Chairman of the War Production Board and formerly president of General Electric Company, and Lieutenant General William S...
Poster

The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
Poster

The War Bonds You Hold Are Fighting Bonds!

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 52, "Fighting Bonds." The poster features a service flag or banner with a blue star in the center. Red stripes emerge from the shadow o...
Poster

Your Country Is Still at War - Are You? Buy More War Bonds and Hold Them!

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 53, "Roll of Honor." The poster features an unrolled scroll of parchment with a "Roll of Honor" listing the following names: Richard As...
Poster

Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 10, "Girl War Worker." The poster features a young woman wearing overalls and protective gloves with her hair bound back...
Poster

Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding...
Poster

"He'll Be Home Sooner... Now You've Joined the WAVES"

Date: 1944
Description: WAVES Unnumbered Design, "Mother and Daughter." The poster features a proud mother with her arm around her daughter, who is in naval uniform. In the backgr...
Poster

Produce. Conserve Share. Play Square! - To Hasten War's End

Date: 1943
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 2, "Market Basket." The poster features a background with farmland on the left and factories on the left. In the upper f...
Poster

Let's All Back the Attack

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 35, "Crowd with Banners." The poster features a determined crowd of American civilians from all walks of life holding up signs in suppo...

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