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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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Armistice Day Celebration

Date: 11 11 1918
Description: Armistice Day celebration (mock funeral of Kaiser Wilhelm II). Soldier identified is William Carlson, who was disabled by the chemical agent mustard gas an...
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World War I Trucks

Date: 1918
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...
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Nash Quad

Date: 1918
Description: The standard U.S. Ordnance Department ammunition body manufactured by Nash Motors, the so-called "Nash Quad."
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
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 ...
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Allis Chalmers Tractor-Truck

Date: 1914
Description: During the years 1913-1914 Allis-Chalmers manufactured this vehicle, a tractor-truck, which was primarily sold to the French and Russian governments.
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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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Mess Hall and Kitchen in Vaux Varennes

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Mess hall and kitchen in a truck located in Vaux Varennes. Captioned: ""Salle a manger" and "Cuisine" at Vaux Varennes in the Aieux Country."
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Road to Verdun

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down road towards trucks and ambulances. Captioned: "Part of our cantonment at Dombasle on the road to Verdun."
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Convoy from Paris

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across field of cars in a convoy. Caption reads: "A stop to wait for broken down cars while in convoy from Paris to Longeville."
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Man Standing Near Ambulance

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across road towards a man standing in front of an ambulance. Caption reads: "Two months out of Paris. Taken the day he left Wambasle en route for Waly...
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French Villagers First American Encounter

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: School children gathered around a American. Caption reads: "Sammy Lloyd, Cornell instructor in botany, with a group of merry villagers. We were the first A...
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Cook and his Kitchenette

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Portrait of a man posing at the open back door of his kitchenette, which is on the back of a truck. Caption reads: "Andre Gaillard, our 'bon cook' in the r...
Poster

War and Business

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with red text overlaying illustrations in blue. The top left illustration is of soldiers with cannons on battlefront. At the bottom right is an illu...
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Women Dump Truck Drivers

Date: 1916
Description: Women drivers of light dump trucks for the highway department in Ashland County during the first World War. The truck in the foreground has a service flag ...

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