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Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal Construction

Date: 05 16 1942
Description: Men use a crane to work on the "Micro-Westco Addition" at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. The text on the crane reads: "Universal; Exca...
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Ordnance Steel Foundry Excavation

Date: 07 10 1942
Description: Overhead view of four people standing in a muddy excavated hole for a footing at the Ordnance Steel Foundry. The Foundry may have served as part of Interna...
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Ordnance Steel Foundry Concrete Footings

Date: 07 21 1942
Description: Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve...
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Watch House at Quad Cities Tank Arsenal

Date: 11 20 1942
Description: Men constructing guard towers at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Buildings and a vehicle are in the background.
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Boiler House at Quad Cities Tank Arsenal

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Men are standin on scaffolding to work on the Boiler House at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Another man is working on the ground besi...
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Quad Cities Tank Arsenal Construction

Date: 09 18 1942
Description: Two men are standing on ladders while working on the side of a building at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Another man is standing near...
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Building Construction

Date: 07 03 1942
Description: Men work on the interior of a partially constructed building at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal.
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Panama Camp Construction Workers

Date: 1942
Description: The camp construction executive and workers gather to pose for a group portrait in Panama. The executive is sitting in a chair and the workers are gathered...
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Indigenous Men Build Hospital

Date: 11 10 1942
Description: Without nails, wire or rope, indigenous men build a large structure for an American hospital unit headed by Major Stanley Hollenbeck of Milwaukee, Wisconsi...
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Robert Doyle with Two Indigenous Men

Date: 06 1945
Description: Micronesian men, who put thatched roofs on buildings in the western Caroline Islands for United States forces, sit chatting with Robert J. Doyle, The Journ...

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