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World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
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...
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Teacher and Students participating in World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P....
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Boy Scouts on Bicycles

Date: 1942
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...
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Waukesha CAP

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Description: Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o...
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Royal Canadian Air Force Salvages B-34 Bomber

Date: 1944
Description: Royal Canadian Air Force men using an International TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) to salvage a B-34 bomber at Shell Camp Lake, Nova Scotia.
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Marines Unload Field Gun at Rendova

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International Harvester TD-9 diesel TracTracTor to unload a field gun from an LST boat on the beach at Rendova. Original caption read...
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Marines Using Crawler Tractor on Landing Craft

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International TD-9 diesel TracTracTor (crawler tractor) with a Bucyrus Erie shovel on an LCM (Landing Craft, Materiel) at Roi during ...
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Marines use International Crawler Tractor to Transport Supplies

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marines using an International Harvester TracTracTor to transport supplies through muddy soil. Original caption reads: "Soil, principally sandy-mud, a...
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Girls with Old Bed for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
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...
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Sales Girls Distribute War Bonds at World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
Description: Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s...
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Preview Display of Post-War Appliances

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Window display at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 South Pinckney Street, with post-war appliances including products by Vollrath, Filter Queen, West Bend, General...
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Preview Display of Post-War Products

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Display in left window of future post-war products including appliances manufactured by Toastmaster, All America, General Electric, Proctor, Sunbeam, Steam...
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Boy Scout Paper Salvage Drive

Date: 10 18 1944
Description: Boy Scouts, Troop #20, from Christ Presbyterian Church, in front of a Northern Pacific railroad freight car, with two truckloads of salvaged paper they've ...
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Manchester's, Inc., Scrap Paper Window Display

Date: 09 07 1944
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," "...
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Rennebohm Drug Store

Date: 01 14 1944
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...
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Red Cross Workers

Date: 09 21 1942
Description: Large group of Red Cross Workers seated at tables, preparing surgical dressings in the assembly room at the American Federation of State, County and Local ...
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CUNA Scrap Truck at Malt House

Date: 10 15 1942
Description: CUNA (Credit Union National Association) truck with load of scrap at Malt House, 1603 Sherman Avenue, at the Yahara River bridge. Sign on side of truck: "S...
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International M-5 High Speed Prime Mover

Date: 1943
Description: Army personnel pulling a 155mm howitzer with a International M-5 High Speed Prime Mover during a test or demonstration. Original caption reads: "This high ...
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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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IHC Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal at Bettendorf Works

Date: 03 23 1943
Description: Quad-Cities tank arsenal at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works as seen looking southwest from the roof of the office building.

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