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War Movie Advertisement
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Photographic copy of an advertisement featuring two film strips with scenes from the movies "The Strong Shall be Free" and "The Marines Have Landed." The movie stills show former Harvester employees in battle or employees working in factories, and International trucks and tractors being used in battle. The advertisement text reads: "The Strong Shall be Free; Behind the Men Behind the Guns Work the Men of Harvester (This Movie Now Being Shown Harvester Families)" and "The Marines Have Landed; International Trucks and TracTracTors Help Keep the Marines on the Spot (This Movie Also Being Shown Harvester Families)." The original caption reads: "Plant Magazine back cover."
July 1942
International Harvester Company
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W012YKZ
WHi 63556
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Rogers Truck & Implement Company Service Shop
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Marines Loading Truck
1945
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W.I. Wilkie Lumber Company with Truck
1942
A group of men load cut logs onto the back of an International truck in a wooded area. The writing on the truck cab reads: "W.I. Wilkie Lumber Co. Smithton, Ark." An International crawler tractor ...
Clarksdale IH Dealership
1942
Mechanics work on tractors and a truck in the service shop of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising banners hang from the ceiling and in the background is a large open doorway.
Family Farming
1942
Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger and a truck.
Worker Painting McCormick-Deering Tractor
1942
Worker repainting a McCormick-Deering tractor in the paint shop of an International Harvester dealership.
