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| Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and... |
| Date: | 10 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a stub lathe to turn, face, groove and "chamfer" chain-tightener sprockets at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The sprocket... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees leaving International Harvester's Bettendorf Works at the end of their work day. A sign in the background reads "Produce for Victory." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker inspecting small plastic and metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of female workers operating machines at International Harvester's Chatham Works in Ontario, Canada. The factory was originally owned... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Two women inspect a drill press at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "Dust prevention and cleanliness is so important as a factor... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers producing torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "A battery of acetylene torches is here show... |
| Date: | 05 28 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker winds a motor in the electrical shop at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 05 01 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers loading Farmall tractors onto rail cars outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original caption reads: "Machines for use in the p... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory supervisors watch a man demonstrating a machine operation at the Women Supervisors' Conference held at International Harvester's West Pullma... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female operator at an International Harvester Company factory welds the end plates of a M-5 high-speed tractor. The tractor was built for the Army to pul... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Two female factory workers talk while standing in front of a piece of machinery at International Harvester's Tractor Works factory. The original caption re... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker operates a lathe at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Another woman is working in the background. The original caption reads... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A factory worker using a Tocco induction process machine at International Harvester Company's Tractor Works. The original caption reads: "Operator readies ... |
| Date: | 06 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing safety glasses uses what appears to be a piece of sandpaper to polish a torpedo part at International Harvester's McCormick... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman's face is visible through an opening in the after-body of an aircraft torpedo as she uses a tool to tap holes in it. The photograph was taken at In... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works stand on wooden platforms at individual stations to weld parts for the "M-5 high sp... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of female factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works assembling the instrument panels for "M-5 high speed tractors" [crawler]. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Doris Zwieg uses a multiple drill for war production at International Harvester Company's Milwaukee Works. She wears a hat embroidered with ... |
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