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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... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines using an International Harvester TracTracTor to transport supplies through muddy soil. Original caption reads: "Soil, principally sandy-mud, a... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Herman Elies slashing the twine ties from the hemp bundles to be processed into cordage for rope during World War II at a hemp mill on Highway 51 in DeFore... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman is feeding hemp stalks into a crusher for rope production during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two men processing hemp in a DeForest plant for use as cord and rope during World War II. The men are feeding hemp into a rolling machine which crushes the... |
| Date: | 03 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Alvan Rothermel, Glen Oak Hills, purchasing seed, labels and tools, for his Victory garden from Louis Schuster, manager of the L.L. Olds Seed Company, 720 ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Frederick (Marion) Rentschler and Mrs. John R. (Eileen) Frederick, members of the Madison Woman's Club, are shown with produce from their Victory gard... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Marion Oestreich and daughter, Margaret, age 3, looking at a blackboard diagram of their Community Union garden. The gardens are planned to provide garden ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Wilbur and Marjorie Dudley and daughters, Amy Jean on the left, and Deborah on right, in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are p... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Karl L. Siebecker and her children, Judy (left) and Susan (right), in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are planned to prov... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Adult and young angora rabbits sitting in their hutches. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Angora rabbits eating in their hutches. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Esther Goubert of Santa Ana, California, takes the final field test of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) operation in the "Tractorette" program. The original c... |
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