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| 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 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: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The standard U.S. Ordnance Department ammunition body manufactured by Nash Motors, the so-called "Nash Quad." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | During the years 1913-1914 Allis-Chalmers manufactured this vehicle, a tractor-truck, which was primarily sold to the French and Russian governments. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | International Harvester branch house. Railroad tracks are near the building. A flag hangs in the window with a small cross shape, stars and "100%" printed ... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The short turn army escort wagon was produced by International Harvester for the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1918 and was developed primarily along the lines of... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View from ship as a crowd on a pier is saying goodbye to "Espagne" as it is sailing away. Captioned: "The crowd at the pier as the 'Espagne' left for Borde... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a team of two horses drawing a coal wagon, with a man in the back of the tipped wagon unloading coal with a shovel. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel that shows a crowd of men dressing a monumental soldier, who is sitting in a chair. The smaller men are bringing his hat, ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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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| Description: | Unloading carts full of sides of beef in the factory courtyard. |
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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. |
| 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... |
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