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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Women sitting on grass watching a lecture on maintenance of Farmall A and Farmall M tractors. The lecture was part of International Harvester's "Tractorett... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Dan Downey, International Harvester blockman from Philadelphia, teaches three women how to operate a Farmall M tractor and a McCormick-Deering harvester-th... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Instructor Mr. Schweitzer reviewing the operation of a Farmall M tractor with a group of women. The women are (L to R): Donna Mehaffy, Oakville; Marian Hul... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers installing parts on combine bodies along assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed ... |
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| Description: | Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman is feeding hemp stalks into a crusher for rope production during World War II. |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frederick (Marion) Rentschler and Mrs. John R. (Eileen) Frederick, members of the Madison Woman's Club, are shown with produce from their Victory gard... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Wesley Kolkhorst shows Lillian A. Heinrichs how to operate a TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The original caption reads: "Mrs. Lillian A. Heinrichs learns t... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Esther Goubert of Santa Ana, California, takes the final field test of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) operation in the "Tractorette" program. The original c... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lillian A. Heinrichs, Lucille Eltiste, and Esther Goubert receive instruction from H.E. des Granges during "Tractorette" class while Wesley Kollehorst, fie... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of seated young women at "Tractorette" School are instructed by John Schneider outside Nodaway County Implement Company, an International Harvester... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ada Adkins, recently widowed, learning to use a tractor in a "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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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