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Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 05 18 1933 |
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Description: | The Battle of Durham Hill during the milk strike, showing sheriff's deputies and National Guardsmen (sworn in as special deputies) charging farmers with ba... |
Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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Description: | Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and... |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | International G-1(?) truck carrying International Harvester Company women workers during World War I. The truck is decorated with flags and shields bearing... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Two female sheet metal workers fabricating engine cowlings for Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo and transport planes at the International Harvester's Aub... |
Date: | 10 01 1945 |
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Description: | Female worker using a stub lathe to turn, face, groove and "chamfer" chain-tightener sprockets at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The sprocket... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Male and female workers installing parts on combine bodies along assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed ... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Employees leaving International Harvester's Bettendorf Works at the end of their work day. A sign in the background reads "Produce for Victory." |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
Date: | 07 27 1988 |
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Description: | Vintage aircraft always attract attention. In 1988 on their way to the EAA convention, the national organization of owners of World War II trainers made a ... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | William Brennand of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Brennand piloted Steve Wittman's "Buster" to victory in the 1947 National Air Races. This photograph is from the co... |
Date: | 09 1943 |
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Description: | A real-life Rosie the Riveter instructs journalists on the Aviation Writers' Tour at the Goodyear Aircraft Factory. This plant manufactured Martin Marauder... |
Date: | 1894 |
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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... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle sits and drinks coffee with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria. |
Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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Description: | Two women inspect a drill press at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "Dust prevention and cleanliness is so important as a factor... |
Date: | 05 28 1943 |
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Description: | Female factory worker winds a motor in the electrical shop at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
Date: | 01 26 1944 |
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Description: | Lena A. Zwank, Theodore J. Schlueter and Mary I. Whare, Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department retirees, seated at a dining table set up in the office, with po... |
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