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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling an engine cowling for the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo and transport airplane during World War II at International Harvest... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers installing parts on combine bodies along assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed ... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman shopping in the meat department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She is there to promote the wartime Oscar Mayer Health... |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men examining an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The original caption reads: "J.M. Curtis, Los Angeles branch industrial traveler (no hat), e... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Workers on an assembly line at an International Harvester factory. The original caption reads: "assembling 57mm gun carriages." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Workers drilling on a section of a military airplane cowling at an International Harvester factory. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne... |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling the steering gear on a military truck at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man works on an armature at Fuller & Johnson, 52 North Dickinson Street. Fuller&Johnson produced war material during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man operating a drill press at Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, producing war materiel 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: | 01 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray in the storage room inspecting some of the more than 300,000 batteries made in one day at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division... |
| Date: | 05 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young. |
| Date: | 07 06 1945 |
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| Description: | Capt. (Dr.) Gunnar Quisling is shown with a device (a surgical caliper or sliding square) he perfected for rapid detection of foreign bodies in wounded sol... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery. |
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