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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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International Truck Carrying Female Employees

Date: 1918
Description: International G-1(?) truck carrying International Harvester Company women workers during World War I. The truck is decorated with flags and shields bearing...
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Women at War

Date: 05 25 1917
Description: A World War I female factory worker dressed in a uniform repairing her own machinery.
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Off to the Trenches

Date: 05 05 1918
Description: Send off for World War I recruits at the railroad station. The man leaning out of the train window is Ben Bergor, a professional magician and vaudeville pe...
Poster

Four Years in the Fight

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring women glass blowers working in a factory with large tongs. Two men are standing by the window in the background, one dressed i...
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The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring four women in brown coats, pants, and hats walking along a field. One of the women is leading a team of two horses, two of the...
Poster

Women of Maine Are You Helping? Heroic Women of France. We Must Win The War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of three women, in a field, leaning over and pulling an agricultural implement in a field. Text above photograph reads: "Hero...
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"Noon Day Meals For Needy Artists"

Date: 1914
Description: Struggling artists in Berlin meet for their daily noon meal and discuss the issues of the day.
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German Soldiers in Front of Refugee Train

Date: 1914
Description: German soldiers and Dutch officials in front of a neutral train transporting refugees back to Belgium.
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Skutari Street Scenes

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Description: “The inquisitive reporter” in Skutari. Austrian or German journalist in conversation with a woman on the street in Skutari.
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Women Dump Truck Drivers

Date: 1916
Description: Women drivers of light dump trucks for the highway department in Ashland County during the first World War. The truck in the foreground has a service flag ...

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