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Workers Load Wagon Components onto Railroad Car
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Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The crates are labeled "From Army Inspector of Ordnance; International Harvester Co.; McCormick Works." The pieces were likely manufactured under a military contract with the U.S. government.
April 17, 1918
International Harvester Company
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