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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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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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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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Preparing St. Paul Works for Gun Manufacture

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re...
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Factory Buildings

Date: 1942
Description: Panoramic view of what appear to be several recently completed factory buildings. The buildings may be part of International Harvester's tank arsenal at Be...
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Military Motor Truck Assembly

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works assemble the frame of a military motor truck.
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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 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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Ordnance Steel Foundry Annex

Date: 09 16 1942
Description: Exterior view of the annex to International Harvester's Ordnance Steel Foundry with railroad tracks running through the foreground. Several men stand near ...
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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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Truck Assembly Line at Melbourne

Date: 06 30 1943
Description: Factory workers on the truck assembly line at International Harvester Company of Australia's Melbourne Works.
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International M-3-4 Truck

Date: 1941
Description: Three-quarter view towards the front driver's side of an International 1 1/2 ton cargo M-3-4 M.T. truck. The truck was sold to the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Oscar Mayer Parking Lot

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Description: View from parking log towards the Oscar Mayer plant. In the left foreground is a truck with a sign painted on the passenger side door that reads: "Oscar M...
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Oscar Mayer Employees Walking Outdoors

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Description: Oscar Mayer employees are walking near the plant, down the entrance road near a chain link fence. There is a water tower and three American flags on three ...
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Oscar Mayer Parking Lot

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Description: View from a fenced-off area towards the parking lot of the Oscar Mayer manufacturing plant. A flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on t...

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