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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Company Catalog

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. Features a color i...
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Soldiers at Attention

Date: 1943
Description: A group of soldiers stand at attention while lines of men walk past. Men are working on a roof and scaffold around a steeple on a building in the backgroun...
Photograph

Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
Photograph

Soldier Shoveling Mud Off Crawler Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The...
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Marines Pulling Trailer from Mud

Date: 1945
Description: Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to pull an ammunition trailer from the mud. The original caption reads: "JAPANESE A...
Photograph

Scouts on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers on patrol in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. One soldier is walking along a dirt road carrying a large automat...
Photograph

Night Construction with IH Equipment in Vietnam

Date: 1967
Description: Men from the Air Force's Red Horse heavy repair squadrons use International equipment to clear land in Vietnam, possibly for construction of barracks or a ...
Photograph

Aluminum Runway Repair in Vietnam

Date: 1967
Description: A group of men from the Air Force's Red Horse heavy repair squadrons stand outdoors while making repairs on an aluminum runway in Vietnam. An airplane is b...
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Runway Repair in Vietnam

Date: 1967
Description: Men from the Air Force's Red Horse heavy repair squadrons use an International Harvester pay scraper to make repairs on a runway in Vietnam.
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Men Using International 270 Pay Scraper in Vietnam

Date: 1967
Description: Two men use an International 270 pay scraper while completing construction work at Phan Rang, a South Vietnam air base.
Photograph

Gift Cows, U.S. Marine Helicopter Base

Date: 06 1962
Description: Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r...
Photograph

Widening Irrigation Canal

Date: 1962
Description: Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ...

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