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Workers Load Wagon Components onto Railroad Car

Date: 04 17 1918
Description: Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo...
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Boxed Artillery Cart Ready for Shipment

Date: 05 17 1918
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 ...
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Four Women and Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and...
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Experimental Farmall Tractor

Date: 12 29 1930
Description: International Harvester engineering department photograph of an experimental Farmall tractor. The original caption reads: "15-30 Farmall Tractor (redesigne...
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Crated Machine Gun Cart at McCormick Works

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Crated "U.S. Machine Gun Cart" outside in factory yard.
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Pawling & Harnischfeger Co. Truck with Artillery Gun Mounted on Bed

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Description: A Pawling and Harnischfeger Company truck, with an artillery gun mounted on the bed, decorated with banners and flags. Two soldiers are standing on the bac...
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Soldiers Repairing Roads

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background.
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Loading Bricks for Use in Roadbuilding

Date: 1915
Description: Bricks from a destroyed factory building are being collected for use in the improvement of poor roadways in Serbia during World War I.
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Women Employed by The Nash Motor Company

Date: 1918
Description: View across street towards a large group of women at the Nash Motor Company building. A few people are looking out from open windows in the building. Capti...
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Preparing Goulash Meat

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Description: Unloading carts full of sides of beef in the factory courtyard.
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Workshops in Spandau

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Description: In front of the workshops in Spandau. Thousands of people are employed here, making and preparing all sorts of things for the military.
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Truck Frame for Army Use

Date: 06 03 1918
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...

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