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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough... |
| 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: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of hundreds of people, possibly factory workers, gathered to hear speeches outside International Harvester's Deering(?) Works. The event appe... |
| Date: | 04 17 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo... |
| Date: | 05 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling artillery or "machine gun" carts for the United States military during World War I at International Harvester's McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 08 29 1918 |
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| Description: | U.S. soldiers standing in a street with military trucks parked along a curb near the McCormick Works. The truck bodies were likely built under military con... |
| Date: | 05 17 1918 |
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| Description: | Boxed 240 mm mortar cart ready for shipment to the U.S. military from International Harvester's McCormick Works. Includes a trench mortar barrel. A man is ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1918 |
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| Description: | Crated "U.S. Machine Gun Cart" outside in factory yard. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men hold a sign that says "Car No. 1 Manure Secured by Y.M.C.A. for Eighth Ward War Gardens" while standing on top of a manure pile in a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 10 30 1917 |
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| Description: | Two-sided dinner card menu from the Blackstone Hotel for Meatless Tuesday ("Dishes containing beef, veal, mutton, lamb or pork will not be served to-day.")... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Contents of X-mas box sent to Harvester men at military camps displayed on a wall at McCormick Works. Some of the contents include candy, gum, toothpaste, ... |
| Date: | 06 03 1918 |
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| Description: | A truck frame for army use is set up on blocks in the yard at McCormick Works. The frame would be covered with a tarp. In the background are railroad track... |
| Date: | 01 27 1919 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Holt is lying in her hospital bed at Henrotin Memorial Hospital. Her left leg, under the bed sheet, appears to be elevated. There are several frame... |
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