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Women Inspecting 37-Millimeter Shells

Date: 1942
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells.
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New Female Employee Training

Date: 01 13 1941
Description: A group of new female factory workers receiving their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for making ...
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New Female Employee Training

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: A group of recently hired factory female workers receive their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for...
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Female Employees Inspecting Ball Bearings

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Female factory workers inspect ball bearings at an International Harvester factory. The factory produced aerial torpedoes for the U.S. Military.
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Female Employees Assembling Torpedo Parts

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Female workers assembling torpedoes for the U.S. Military at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This large group of women employe...
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Woman Working on Midget Mill in Torpedo Plant

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Woman working on a midget mill that cuts spiral grooves and moves at a rate of about 3500 r.p.m. The woman operating this machine was a former drill press ...
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"Tractorettes" Working on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Three women work under a Farmall H tractor. International Harvester's "Tractorette" program was intended to teach women to operate and maintain tractors wh...
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War Production at Auburn Works

Date: 1944
Description: Male and female factory workers make an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 commando cargo plane at Auburn Works.
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War Production at Auburn Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Auburn Works uses a machine to make engine an cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane while two ...
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War Production at Auburn Works

Date: 1944
Description: Male and female factory workers assemble an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane at International Harvester's Auburn Works.
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Women in War Production at Auburn Works

Date: 1944
Description: Female factory workers make parts for engine cowlings at International Harvester's Auburn Works. The cowlings were for Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo p...
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Lucille Eltiste on a TracTracTor

Date: 1943
Description: Lucille Eltiste learns how to operate an International TD-9 crawler tractor with a Dyrr Offset Disk Harrow. The original caption reads: "With August Eltist...
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TracTracTor Instruction

Date: 1943
Description: Wesley Kolkhorst shows Lillian A. Heinrichs how to operate a TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The original caption reads: "Mrs. Lillian A. Heinrichs learns t...
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"Tractorette" Esther Goubert

Date: 1943
Description: Esther Goubert of Santa Ana, California, takes the final field test of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) operation in the "Tractorette" program. The original c...
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"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1943
Description: Lillian A. Heinrichs, Lucille Eltiste, and Esther Goubert receive instruction from H.E. des Granges during "Tractorette" class while Wesley Kollehorst, fie...
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"Tractorette" School

Date: 1942
Description: A group of seated young women at "Tractorette" School are instructed by John Schneider outside Nodaway County Implement Company, an International Harvester...
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Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
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Betty Stevens on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Betty Stevens, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, is riding a Farmall H tractor through J.D. Thompson's ...
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Mrs. Ada Adkins on Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Ada Adkins, recently widowed, learning to use a tractor in a "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company.
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"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1942
Description: Several participants from a class of 22 "Tractorettes" standing around a Farmall tractor with their instructor, John Schneider, proprietor of the Nodaway C...

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