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| Date: | 10 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Earl Otto, an executive of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, takes a turn during the machine gun test of the laminate plastic panels being devel... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker operates a Magnaflux machine at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "A Magnaflux machine is used to... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers stand outside firing booths to conduct testing at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker operates a vertical broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Vertical bro... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect parts at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Many small parts for the gun a... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers inspect a gun at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "In the test firing department careful... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) Millimeter Gun Plant operate a factory machine. Caption on photograph reads: "First machining of t... |
| 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: | 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 tend to part of a high speed gun carriage at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 05 01 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers loading Farmall tractors onto rail cars outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original caption reads: "Machines for use in the p... |
| 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 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: | 03 25 1941 |
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| Description: | Police officer and marchers from a Congress of Industrial Organizations (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) union clash outside Intern... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a German soldier and a factory worker shaking hands while a weapon is being produced. Text reads: "Durch Arbeit Zum Sieg! Du... |
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