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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three women work under a Farmall H tractor. International Harvester's "Tractorette" program was intended to teach women to operate and maintain tractors wh... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Poster of a woman driving a Red Cross truck and a woman on a Farmall tractor with the text "Now farm work is war work," and "Join the Farm Victory Voluntee... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a tank and a tractor, with the text: "Both are weapons our farm and fighting forces depend on you." The poster was printed for the Labor-Man... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Herman Elies slashing the twine ties from the hemp bundles to be processed into cordage for rope during World War II at a hemp mill on Highway 51 in DeFore... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman is feeding hemp stalks into a crusher for rope production during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two men processing hemp in a DeForest plant for use as cord and rope during World War II. The men are feeding hemp into a rolling machine which crushes the... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lucille Eltiste learns how to operate an International TD-9 crawler tractor with a Dyrr Offset Disk Harrow. The original caption reads: "With August Eltist... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Esther Goubert of Santa Ana, California, takes the final field test of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) operation in the "Tractorette" program. The original c... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kathryn Mann of Columbia, Pennsylvania, sits on a Farmall A tractor while Walter Dupes, salesman for J.B. Hostetter & Sons of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania,... |
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| Description: | Poster depicting a young shirtless man pitching hay with text that reads: "Put your muscle on a war basis! Sign Up For A Farm Job ... at your local U.S. Em... |
| Date: | 10 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Workers use an industrial tractor to move factory machinery into place at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base... |
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