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Factory Workers Assembling Airplane Engine Cowling

Date: 1944
Description: Factory workers assembling an engine cowling for the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo and transport airplane during World War II at International Harvest...
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Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ...
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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal

Date: 10 02 1942
Description: Railroad track layout and loading docks of the southwest corner of International Harvester's tank arsenal at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works (vi...
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Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
Description: Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o...
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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 wearing a protective mask working on an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane at International Harvester's Auburn Wo...
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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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Construction Outside at Bettendorf Tank Arsenal

Date: 1942
Description: Construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A large hole is in the foreground.
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Bettendorf Tank Arsenal

Date: 1942
Description: Construction site showing an additional to an International Harvester factory, probably the company's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal.
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International M-5-6 Trucks for Russia

Date: 1941
Description: International military trucks bound for Russia during World War II. Original caption reads: "The trucks are the military model No. M-5-6, originally sold t...
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International M-5-6 Trucks on Assembly Line

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers on the assembly line (possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works) with M-5-6 trucks. Original caption reads: "The trucks are the...
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International M-5-6 Trucks on Assembly Line

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers on an assembly line with M-5-6 trucks, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks are the m...
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International M-5-6 Trucks on Assembly Line

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers on assembly line with M-5-6 trucks, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks in the assem...
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Preparing Shipment of M-5-6 Trucks

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers move crates containing International M-5-6 trucks onto rail cars, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption r...
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Packing International M-5-6 Trucks in Crates

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers packing M-5-6 trucks into crates, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks in the assembl...
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Packing International M-5-6 Trucks in Crates

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers pack an International M-5-6 truck into a crate, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks ...
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Packing M-5-6 Trucks into Crates

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers packing International M-5-6 trucks into crates, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks ...
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Gun Carriage at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1941
Description: Milwaukee Works foremen and supervisors posing in front of a "high-speed, modernized gun carriage." At the right is Superintendent V.A. Guebard, and next t...

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