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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 14, "Merchant Marine." The poster features four sailors operating heavy ship artillery. In the bottom right corner it reads: "At least ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 9, "Torpedo." The poster features a torpedo gliding through water. On the right border it reads: "At least 10% Everybody Every Payday."... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 7, "We Can't Do It All." The poster features a soldier adjusting his headgear over a large artillery gun. The subtitl... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a Farmall H tractor while a uniformed man stands on the top of a military tank. Two more men are sitting in ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three marines dressed in uniform, carrying packs and holding guns, pull an ammunition cart through the water towards the beach at Iwo Jima. Military boats ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin... |
| Date: | 11 1944 |
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| Description: | A cordon of GI's work together in water to move a submerged jeep to the beach of Leyte Island. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of marines Private Richard Klatt, of North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (left), and Private First Class Wilfred Voegeli, as they set fire to brush ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Oscar Olsen uses a borescope to inspect 20mm cannons at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker James Matzke clamps the barrel of a 20mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker James Matzke raises the barrel of a 20mm cannon onto a receiving block to be inspected by Beverly Ackerman at International Harvester's St. ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Stella Ringstrand mills a 20mm gun part at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Byrdine Fowler operates a grinder at International Harvester's St. Paul Works to take down the outer dimension on the gas sleeve of a 20mm c... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Joan Harris sits at a workspace to inspect a 20 mm cannon bolt body part at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Tools are on the table... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker William Nolan works on the final assembly of a 20 mm cannon before proof firing at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Emil Borchert grinds the shell receiver end of the barrel of a 20 mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's New Brighton Works turn 105mm shell cases on a piece of machinery. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing an apron readies a shell turning machine for operation at International Harvester's New Brighton Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Edna Fillbrandt wraps parts for a 20 mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of Native Americans hunting buffalo with spears and bows. Text on photograph reads: "Grand Forks, N.D. Buffalo Hunting- Olden Time... |
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