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Tractorette School

Date: 1942
Description: Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu...
Photograph

Combine Assembly Line at East Moline Works

Date: 1944
Description: Male and female workers installing parts on combine bodies along assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and...
Photograph

German Prisoner of War with Pea Vines

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery.
Photograph

Lucille Eltiste on a TracTracTor

Date: 1943
Description: Lucille Eltiste learns how to operate an International TD-9 crawler tractor with a Dyrr Offset Disk Harrow. The original caption reads: "With August Eltist...
Photograph

"Tractorette" Esther Goubert

Date: 1943
Description: Esther Goubert of Santa Ana, California, takes the final field test of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) operation in the "Tractorette" program. The original c...
Photograph

Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
Photograph

Kathryn Mann on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Kathryn Mann of Columbia, Pennsylvania, sits on a Farmall A tractor while Walter Dupes, salesman for J.B. Hostetter & Sons of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania,...
Photograph

Metal Collected for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro...
Photograph

Branch Manager with Honor Roll

Date: 1942
Description: S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al...
Photograph

International Harvester Tractors in Vietnam

Date: 1967
Description: A man is using an International Harvester tractor to level land before building barracks in Vietnam.
Print

The Greatest Weapon

Date: 1918
Description: Wartime advertisement for Kardell tractors featuring an illustration of a farmer using a team of two horses to work in a field, along with the headline: "L...
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma...
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of Naval officers loading a cannon above an ill...
Poster

Food for Fighters Everywhere

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of a cargo ship and Army truck set against that...
Book or Pamphlet

The Language of the Hand — Moline Plow Co. Catalog

Date: 1871
Description: Front and back cover of catalog. Front features an illustration of 6 hands, each labeled from A-F. The back has an illustration of the "Flying Dutchman" tr...
Poster

The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with two illustrations of farmers plowing fields with horse-drawn plows. Text reads, in part: "The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye, More...

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