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| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
| Date: | 01 13 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of new female factory workers receiving their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for making ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of recently hired factory female workers receive their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect ball bearings at an International Harvester factory. The factory produced aerial torpedoes for the U.S. Military. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female workers assembling torpedoes for the U.S. Military at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This large group of women employe... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Woman working on a midget mill that cuts spiral grooves and moves at a rate of about 3500 r.p.m. The woman operating this machine was a former drill press ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Workers on an assembly line at an International Harvester factory. The original caption reads: "assembling 57mm gun carriages." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Workers drilling on a section of a military airplane cowling at an International Harvester factory. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne... |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling the steering gear on a military truck at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works. |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Senior Service Girl Scouts of Troop 22 from East High School posing on the stairs after having hung Christmas greens at the USO club. The girls are (left t... |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Three women buying war bonds at Manchester's Department Store while two clerks ring up the sale. The three women are all wearing fur coats, as it is a spec... |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter ring up the sales. |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman buying a war bond from Santa Claus, who was helping other Manchester employees wait on crowds of purchasers at the bonds-only sale on the store's mai... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Red Cross volunteers preparing bandages at a Red Cross office in New York City. The woman standing on the right, who is supervising the work, is Mrs. Belmo... |
| Date: | 05 14 1898 |
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| Description: | The first roll call of Troop L, Rough Riders. Captain Capron walks down the line, looking his men over. A crowd gathers to watch. The photograph was tak... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman who worked at the Four Wheel Drive factory in Clintonville assembling trucks during World War I. She is wearing a special uniform fo... |
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