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| 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: | 04 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Dane County chief air raid warden, Coroner E.A. "Ace" Fischer, wearing a gas mask on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 01 1945 |
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| Description: | O.I. Dhein, instructor, with East High School shop students Bob Somerville, Carl Carlson and Francis Lockman working on the aluminum heads for canes they w... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory worker wearing a protective mask working on an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane at International Harvester's Auburn Wo... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses an oxy-acetylene torch to fit a copper tube in the production of an aircraft torpedo. He is wearing an International Harvester Compan... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at a machine in International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "High Speeding of 155-Millimeter Gun Carriage at Milwauke... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker wearing saftey goggles and welding a shell casing at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. In this ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. First op... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Joan Hebrink with safety shoes. Original caption states: "Closed-toe safety shoes are required wear by all women employees of the plant. All... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female operator at an International Harvester Company factory welds the end plates of a M-5 high-speed tractor. The tractor was built for the Army to pul... |
| Date: | 06 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing safety glasses uses what appears to be a piece of sandpaper to polish a torpedo part at International Harvester's McCormick... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman's face is visible through an opening in the after-body of an aircraft torpedo as she uses a tool to tap holes in it. The photograph was taken at In... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works stand on wooden platforms at individual stations to weld parts for the "M-5 high sp... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of female factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works assembling the instrument panels for "M-5 high speed tractors" [crawler]. |
| Date: | 05 25 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hat, protective gloves, and safety glasses uses a tool to bend copper tubing used in making aircraft torpedoes at an International Harves... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience... |
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