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| Date: | 04 1975 |
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| Description: | "Irwin Silber, an editor of the 'Guardian'," a radical weekly newspaper, speaking to an anti-war rally in a square near a large sculpture. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Libby Prison at the Columbian Exposition. Several carts, horses in front of the building. |
| Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers from International Harvester's McCormick Works line up on a stage to receive the Army-Navy "E" award, given to manufacturing plants achievi... |
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| Description: | Engraved carte-de-visite profile portrait of William H. Seward, Secretary of State under the Lincoln Administration. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Two female factory workers talk while standing in front of a piece of machinery at International Harvester's Tractor Works factory. The original caption re... |
| Date: | 05 28 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker winds a motor in the electrical shop at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker operates a surface grinder at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "This woman employe... |
| Date: | 11 24 1942 |
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| Description: | Three female factory workers inspect 40-millimeter artillery shells at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
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| Description: | Composite paste-up intended to represent "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War with his bearer. At the Northwest Sanita... |
| Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory inspectors at International Harvester's 20 mm gun plant. A woman also stands in the background using a piece of equipment. Original caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Two nurses test C.E. Stevens' blood pressure and hemoglobin prior to his blood donation at the Red Cross blood bank. The original caption reads: "Blood pre... |
| Date: | 04 11 1865 |
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| Description: | Backside of a fund-raising certificate of the U.S. Sanitary Commission appointing Emily Grouch a sergeant in the Army of the American Eagle. The Commissio... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men hold a sign that says "Car No. 1 Manure Secured by Y.M.C.A. for Eighth Ward War Gardens" while standing on top of a manure pile in a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect ball bearings at an International Harvester factory. The factory produced aerial torpedoes for the U.S. Military. |
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| Description: | Engraved three-quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of Major General William B. Franklin, a corps commander of the U.S. Army of the Potomac, seeing acti... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | This photograph from the album of aviation pioneer Jesse Brabazon is described by him as the "first simulated bombing in history, using an aeroplane versus... |
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