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| Description: | Factory workers sitting and standing for a group portrait at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Uniformed women are sitting in the foreground, and A... |
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| Description: | Annabel Nelson places three rubber toys on a scale, presumably to donate them to the war effort, while F.E. Williams looks on. The two crouch on the groun... |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster produced by the Labor Management Production Drive Committee urging people to share automobile rides. The text on the poster r... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Major Paul H. Wood, center, inspects cots in a tent while two of the tent occupants, former employees of the International Harvester Company, stand at atte... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers, formerly International Harvester employees and dealers, sitting on wooden crates to shuck ears of corn near a doorway. The men likely belon... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed men study a map placed on a desk. The original caption reads: "STUDYING THE BATTALION'S NEXT HOME. Lt. Col. D.L. Van Syckle (right), comman... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of uniformed military men sit in wooden chairs inside a building at Camp Perry as they are instructed on various kinds of machinery. Two chalkboard... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Eight officers assigned to train the "Harvester Battalion" stand in a line in a field for a group portrait. In the background is a row of numbers. The men ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Uniformed Corp. J.L. Slack, a former International Harvester Company employee, dances with a woman wearing a dress and high heeled shoes at Port Clinton. O... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers link arms with two women wearing dresses at the Port Clinton Service Center. The men were former International Harvester employees, and likely... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers lined up in a field for a Saturday morning review and a parade before officers. The soldiers likely belong to the "Harvester Battalion... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of uniformed enlisted men affiliated with International Harvester stand on risers for a group portrait. The original caption reads: "BATTALION FROM... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers stand with an American flag in a field at Camp Perry. The men may have belonged to the "Harvester Battalion." |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers gather in a large classroom at Camp Perry for a class on crawler tractors. A blackboard and various military vehicles are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of uniformed soldiers sit at tables in a room at Camp Perry to be instructed in a small arms class. Firearms are on the table in front of each pers... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men assemble a patriotic display consisting of International machinery, a T-9 Tractractor (crawler tractor), a cannon, coils of barbed wire, signs, and... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 19, "Paramarine." The poster features a group of paramarines in the air. In the bottom left corner are the words "Semper Fidelis, 167th... |
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