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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service. The corps performed errands and other services for all organizations engaged in war activities, ans... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
| Date: | 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A real-life Rosie the Riveter instructs journalists on the Aviation Writers' Tour at the Goodyear Aircraft Factory. This plant manufactured Martin Marauder... |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ... |
| Date: | 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o... |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of Washington Yates Selleck was Wisconsin's military agent in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War. In this capacity... |
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| Description: | Man wearing an Uncle Sam costume plowing with a team of horses for an agricultural extension demonstration. It is likely the event took place during World... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men constructing angora rabbit hutches, with the words, "Stallbau und Pflege der Ställe." |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men constructing angora rabbit hutches. There is also a finished row of hutches. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men cleaning and washing angora rabbit hutches. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man feeding angora rabbits in their hutches. Text on page says, "Fütterung". |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Woman feeding angora rabbits in their hutches. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man working with vats for preparation of angora rabbit food. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man working with vats for preparation of angora rabbit food. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Two animal keepers caring for angora rabbit on examination table and medical instruments. Text on the page says, "Tierpflege". |
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