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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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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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Rolling Kitchen in France

Date: 09 16 1918
Description: Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A view of men baking bread in a number of outdoor ovens at Camp Travis, named in 1917. On the right, men stand by a table with many loaves of bread, and me...
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Company "C"

Date: 1917
Description: Men from Company "C" are lined up in a double row on a dirt town street. A soldier in uniform stands at the head of the line. In front are Ed Fryk (2nd fro...
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Uncooperative Transmission

Date: 1917
Description: An engineer wearing eyeglasses is kneeling on the ground and working on a transmission while smoking a pipe. Captioned: "Ed Rehm, University of Illinois, s...
Poster

Are You Working with Schwab?

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of Charles Schwab overseeing men who are working in a shipyard. Text reads: "Charles M. Schwab, Director General of the Emerg...
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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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Delivering Meat

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Description: Delivering sides of meat in Berlin.
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Delivering Flour

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Description: Delivering flour to Berlin on barges.
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Delivering Bread

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Description: A common sight in wartime. Delivery of loaves of bread on large freight wagons.
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Delivering Fish

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Description: Fishmonger unloading fish in Berlin.
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Delivering Vegetables

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Description: Deliveries of vegetables in Berlin.
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Flour Seller

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Description: Galician flour seller from Tarnow.
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Rubber Tire Mounting Press

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Description: Press for mounting heavy rubber truck tires onto rims for Austro-Hungarian military vehicles, Montenegro and Albania.

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