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| Date: | 08 06 1945 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal columnist, visiting with an old friend, Sgt. "Red" White, 32nd Division veteran, who returned to Madison ... |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Herb Pierstorff, mechanic, shown on the left with Merlin Loe, apprentice mechanic, recently discharged veteran of the Armed Forces, at Waters Motor Company... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers make an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 commando cargo plane at Auburn Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory worker wearing a protective mask working on an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane at International Harvester's Auburn Wo... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at International Harvester's Auburn Works uses a machine to make engine an cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane while two ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers assemble an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane at International Harvester's Auburn Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers make parts for engine cowlings at International Harvester's Auburn Works. The cowlings were for Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo p... |
| Date: | 12 04 1947 |
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| Description: | East High School students Betty Jensen, daughter of Nels Jensen, McFarland, John Ellestad, son of John Ellestad, Route 4, and Phil Ashby, son of Mr. and Mr... |
| Date: | 12 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Assembling educational materials for servicemen-students all over the world are the employees of the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI), headquar... |
| 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,... |
| Date: | 08 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Unidentified executive of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division sitting in a folding transport chair, produced as part of the company's war work... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | CG-4A glider floor manufactured by Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, as part of a World War II military contract. Executive Jim Plzak is examinin... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Consolidated Paper Company factory showing the large treater used in the manufacture of glider parts during World War II. Ralph Turne... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | A Consolidated Paper Company employee watches the paper impregnation process whereby the company made a plastic laminate product used in the manufacture of... |
| Date: | 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company check the quality of the laminate product emerging from the dry end of the treater. The laminate was manuf... |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military. |
| Date: | 02 06 1943 |
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| Description: | Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company preparing for a strength and deflection test of a plastic product being developed by the co... |
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