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Women Engaged in "Tractorette" Training

Date: 1942
Description: Dan Downey, International Harvester blockman from Philadelphia, teaches three women how to operate a Farmall M tractor and a McCormick-Deering harvester-th...
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Tractorette Field Demonstration

Date: 1942
Description: Instructor Mr. Schweitzer reviewing the operation of a Farmall M tractor with a group of women. The women are (L to R): Donna Mehaffy, Oakville; Marian Hul...
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"Tractorette" Operating Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr...
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Fort Winnebago Surgeon's Quarters Before Restoration

Date: 1919
Description: Fort Winnebago surgeon's quarters before restoration. Plans used in the remodeling of 1834 (furnished by the War department) were employed to determine the...
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German Prisoner of War with Pea Vines

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery.
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Steinecker Inspecting Peas at Prisoner of War Camp

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Capt. Huldreich M. Stienecker, Michigan, inspecting a load of peas at a cannery where German prisoners of war are working. Steinecker is in charge of the p...
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Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
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Betty Stevens on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Betty Stevens, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, is riding a Farmall H tractor through J.D. Thompson's ...
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"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1942
Description: Several participants from a class of 22 "Tractorettes" standing around a Farmall tractor with their instructor, John Schneider, proprietor of the Nodaway C...
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Phillippa Monachino Driving Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Elevated view of Phillippa Monachino, a participant in "Tractorette" class, driving a tractor through a field of potatoes.
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"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1942
Description: A group of female "Tractorette" class participants with their male instructor gather around a Farmall tractor. The original caption reads: "Part of tractor...
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Woman on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: A Red Cross motor corps woman sitting on a Farmall H tractor at Herbert's Hill Angus farm. The original caption reads: "Red Cross motor corps women in Paol...
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Kathryn Mann on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Kathryn Mann of Columbia, Pennsylvania, sits on a Farmall A tractor while Walter Dupes, salesman for J.B. Hostetter & Sons of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania,...
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Mrs. Jesse Jones on Farmall Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Jesse Jones, a participant in a "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company, drives a Farmall tractor on the farm of Mrs. Helen Georg...
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War Relief Work

Date: 06 15 1950
Description: World War II war relief work. Man pitching hay.
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Three Views of the Indian Massacre

Date: 1862
Description: A composite of three views showing the siege of New Ulm on August 19 during the Indian Massacre of 1862. The lower left view depicts wagons and horses on a...
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Helicopters Over Rice Fields

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of helicopters flying over rice fields in Vietnam.
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Plymouth in 1622

Date: 
Description: Men work outside dwellings along a shoreline in a reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, 1891.
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Helicopters over Rice Paddies

Date: 1962
Description: Aerial view of four U.S. Marine helicopters banking over an expanse of rice paddies in Vietnam. Fluffy white clouds fill the sky.
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All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma...

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