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U.S. Marines

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marine Corps engineers excavating sand and rock with a steam shovel and a fleet of International trucks in the Pavuvu Islands. The International Harve...
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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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Modular Housing

Date: 03 11 1946
Description: A truck arrives at a construction site in Wisconsin Rapids loaded with walls for a factory-built house. The house was the product of the Plastics Division...
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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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International K-8 Truck with Crane

Date: 1941
Description: An International K-8 truck and a Byers crane are used to lift a piece of wood in the construction of a U.S. Army building. The original caption reads: "Nat...
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International Dump KR-11 Government Truck

Date: 05 04 1942
Description: Side view of an International KR-11 dump truck with the bed raised. The original caption reads: "KR-11 M.T. Government Model, Contract 11401."
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Battalion Seabees with International Truck

Date: 09 1943
Description: Battalion Seabees work on waterfront construction using an International K-line truck.
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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 Men with Truck

Date: 1944
Description: A group of five uniformed men stand in the covered cargo body of an International M-5H-6 six-by-six truck with a driver smoking a cigarette sitting behind ...
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Uniformed Men with International Trucks

Date: 1944
Description: Uniformed men sit on top of International crawler tractors equipped with bulldozer blades in an area of brush with hills in the background. An internationa...
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International Truck at Military Encampment

Date: 1944
Description: A man stands near an International dump truck marked: "USMC 35894 - Camp Pendleton." The truck bed is raised, releasing a pile of dirt in front of an encam...
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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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