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Woman in War Work Window Display
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Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display celebrates war work. A sign in the display reads: "This operator, like other men and women in Harvester factories, is doing a vital war job making parts for war materiel needed on the fighting fronts and food production machines needed on the home front."
1944
International Harvester Company
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Aircraft Torpedo Manufacture
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