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Manchester's, Inc., Scrap Paper Window Display

Date: 09 07 1944
Description: H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "...
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Packing Christmas Boxes for Soldiers

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Elevated view of a large group of state employees are standing at long tables laden with items to be packed into Red Cross Christmas boxes for soldiers. Th...
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Shopping at Kroger's

Date: 07 1943
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...
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Men Operating Fire Booths at 20 mm Gun Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Two factory workers stand outside firing booths to conduct testing at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "...
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Worker at International Harvester's 20 mm Gun Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: A factory worker operates a vertical broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Vertical bro...
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Women Posing with Torpedo

Date: 1943
Description: Five female factory workers stand beside a torpedo pointing their fingers and wearing IHC uniforms and hats to pose for a group portrait at one of Internat...
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Edith Storey, Ambulance Driver

Date: 05 1919
Description: "For months Miss Storey has been driving a war ambulance in the streets of New York--a work no less valuable than handling one behind the Flanders lines. A...

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