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| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker greasing artillery shells at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. Original caption reads: "37-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker producing artillery shells at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. Original caption reads: "37-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. The si... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker producing artillery shells at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. Original caption reads: "37-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. The fo... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory inspector examining artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "Inspector Thomas Pedersen checks 75 mm ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | West Pullman Works managers standing with a refrigerator produced for the U.S. Marines. Original caption reads: "International, self-contained, engine-driv... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Factory workers inspecting aircraft torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "Women are employed by the company to insp... |
| Date: | 05 02 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers rebuilding production machinery at International Harvester's "Special Machine Tool Shop." Original caption reads: "All old machine tools co... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Assistant superintendent of International Harvester's St. Paul Works (factory) examines an artillery shell. Original caption reads: "M.V. Keeler, assistant... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker helps produce guns at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "One of the lathes used in gun production operated ... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers sitting and standing for a group portrait at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Uniformed women are sitting in the foreground, and A... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory supervisors watch a man demonstrating a machine operation at the Women Supervisors' Conference held at International Harvester's West Pullma... |
| 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: | 10 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Stacks of lumber used in the construction of what is probably International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). The lumber is sitting on the gro... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Two female factory workers talk while standing in front of a piece of machinery at International Harvester's Tractor Works factory. The original caption re... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker operates a lathe at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Another woman is working in the background. The original caption reads... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A factory worker using a Tocco induction process machine at International Harvester Company's Tractor Works. The original caption reads: "Operator readies ... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A man using a microscope to match a ball bearing for an aircraft torpedo at an International Harvester factory. The original caption reads: "A powerful mic... |
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