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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Scrap drive at International Harvester dealer. Original caption: "C.J. Moericke, who is dealer at Marion in the Green Bay territory, was receiving scrap fr... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Customer standing at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters for the U.S. Truck Conservation Corps and WWII scrap... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three young girls, (L to R): Beverly Peterson, Virginia Gullickson, and Joane Aaby, with an old iron bed donated for a WW II scrap drive during MacArthur W... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,... |
| Date: | 06 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Exhibit developed by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers, Inc., of Wisconsin Rapids, concerning the manufacture of a paper-based plastic, consowel... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker operates a grinder at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "The Harvester gun plant management is es... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers inspect a gun at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "In the test firing department careful... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A large hole is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker painting artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. The exteri... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers posing under a sign at Internationl Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "The Production Drive Committee of Harvester's gun ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A man rides a bicycle down a road at International Harvester's Neuss Works, surrounded on either side by rubble and buildings. The factory was heavily dama... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men stand on the curb beside International trucks used in the Brinks Express Company's "Liberty Fleet." The Field Museum building is in the background acro... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Six men stand outside around a pile of scrap metal in front of the F.V. Russell McCormick-Deering dealership. The metal was collected for a wartime scrap d... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a World War II poster reading: "Another Shot at Hitler; A drop of oil may save a pound of metal", with an illustration of two hands ho... |
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