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Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
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Workers Assemble Gun Carts at McCormick Works

Date: 05 06 1918
Description: Factory workers assembling artillery or "machine gun" carts for the United States military during World War I at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
Photograph

WWI Aerial Emblem

Date: 07 1917
Description: A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing.
Photograph

Kissel War Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr...
Poster

Our Good Mule "Industry"

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon panel in which an overworked mule, labeled: "Industry," is running on a treadmill that is belt-driving a wheel on the side of a ...
Poster

Durch Arbeit Zum Sieg! Durch Sieg zum Frieden

Date: 1918
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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