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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: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks promoting United States government bonds. Features a color illustration of an International K-line truck pullin... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Scrap drive at International Harvester dealer. Original caption: "C.J. Moericke, who is dealer at Marion in the Green Bay territory, was receiving scrap fr... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three young girls, (L to R): Beverly Peterson, Virginia Gullickson, and Joane Aaby, with an old iron bed donated for a WW II scrap drive during MacArthur W... |
| Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Window display at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 South Pinckney Street, with post-war appliances including products by Vollrath, Filter Queen, West Bend, General... |
| Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Display in left window of future post-war products including appliances manufactured by Toastmaster, All America, General Electric, Proctor, Sunbeam, Steam... |
| Date: | 09 07 1944 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "... |
| Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Display of personal care products in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. Here the promotion to buy large size items seen in other Ren... |
| Date: | 10 15 1942 |
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| Description: | CUNA (Credit Union National Association) truck with load of scrap at Malt House, 1603 Sherman Avenue, at the Yahara River bridge. Sign on side of truck: "S... |
| Date: | 03 23 1943 |
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| Description: | Quad-Cities tank arsenal at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works as seen looking southwest from the roof of the office building. |
| Date: | 12 1918 |
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| Description: | Post Office advertising the sale of War Savings Stamps. A sign above the entrance reads: "Do Your Christmas Shopping Here." Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ... |
| 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: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Karl L. Siebecker and her children, Judy (left) and Susan (right), in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are planned to prov... |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | A truck arrives at a construction site in Wisconsin Rapids loaded with walls for a factory-built house. The house was the product of the Plastics Division... |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Concrete block basement for a factory-built house in Wisconsin Rapids. The house was a product of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, and it was ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Works foremen and supervisors posing in front of a "high-speed, modernized gun carriage." At the right is Superintendent V.A. Guebard, and next t... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers unloading a rail car on a loading dock at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun M... |
| Date: | 10 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Workers use an industrial tractor to move factory machinery into place at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re... |
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