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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker inspecting small plastic and metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory worker wearing a protective mask working on an engine cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane at International Harvester's Auburn Wo... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses an oxy-acetylene torch to fit a copper tube in the production of an aircraft torpedo. He is wearing an International Harvester Compan... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at a machine in International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "High Speeding of 155-Millimeter Gun Carriage at Milwauke... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker wearing saftey goggles and welding a shell casing at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. In this ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. First op... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Joan Hebrink with safety shoes. Original caption states: "Closed-toe safety shoes are required wear by all women employees of the plant. All... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female operator at an International Harvester Company factory welds the end plates of a M-5 high-speed tractor. The tractor was built for the Army to pul... |
| Date: | 06 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing safety glasses uses what appears to be a piece of sandpaper to polish a torpedo part at International Harvester's McCormick... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman's face is visible through an opening in the after-body of an aircraft torpedo as she uses a tool to tap holes in it. The photograph was taken at In... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works stand on wooden platforms at individual stations to weld parts for the "M-5 high sp... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of female factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works assembling the instrument panels for "M-5 high speed tractors" [crawler]. |
| Date: | 05 25 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hat, protective gloves, and safety glasses uses a tool to bend copper tubing used in making aircraft torpedoes at an International Harves... |
| Date: | 11 24 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers on a production line at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. The women inspect small metal parts used in war production. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Close-up of factory worker Dorothy Ozen wearing safety glasses while operating a drill press used in war production at International Harvester's West Pullm... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker William Nolan works on the final assembly of a 20 mm cannon before proof firing at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Lorraine Larsen, a lathe operator, tends to a bolt body for the 20 mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker wearing an apron readies a shell turning machine for operation at International Harvester's New Brighton Works. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A female worker applies paint to a piece of an Army air-borne invasion tank in a booth at International Harvester's Indianapolis branch house. |
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