Date: | 03 1945 |
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Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha... |
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: | 1942 |
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Description: | Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Dan Downey, International Harvester blockman from Philadelphia, teaches three women how to operate a Farmall M tractor and a McCormick-Deering harvester-th... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Instructor Mr. Schweitzer reviewing the operation of a Farmall M tractor with a group of women. The women are (L to R): Donna Mehaffy, Oakville; Marian Hul... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr... |
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: | 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: | 11 30 1945 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 10 11 1945 |
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Description: | Leath's Incorporated, 117 to 119 State Street, display window containing silhouettes of electric household appliances, with a sign that reads: "We'll soon ... |
Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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Description: | Window display at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 South Pinckney Street, with post-war appliances including products by Vollrath, Filter Queen, West Bend, General... |
Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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Description: | Display in left window of future post-war products including appliances manufactured by Toastmaster, All America, General Electric, Proctor, Sunbeam, Steam... |
Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the gravesite of Sparky, with four men carrying the co... |
Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the grave site of Sparky, with one man playing taps. ... |
Date: | 09 07 1944 |
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Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "... |
Date: | 09 19 1944 |
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Description: | Malcolm McVicar's military insignia collection on display, with a United States flag, in the window of Photo Copy Service shop, 211 West Mifflin Street. |
Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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Description: | Display of personal care products in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. Here the promotion to buy large size items seen in other Ren... |
Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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Description: | Tiedeman Drug Store, 702 University Avenue, display window showing Saturday Evening Post magazine covers with war theme, with a male and a female em... |
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