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World War II Victory Garden Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h...
Photograph

Waukesha CAP

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Description: Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o...
Photograph

Uncle Sam Plowing

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Description: Man wearing an Uncle Sam costume plowing with a team of horses for an agricultural extension demonstration. It is likely the event took place during World...
Photograph

Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
Poster

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...
Magazine or Periodical

Women Join the Field Artillery (Tractorettes)

Date: 1942
Description: Original title reads: "Women Join the 'Field Artillery'" as International Harvester Dealers Teach Power Farming to an Army of 'Tractorettes.'" Description...
Poster

Women of Maine Are You Helping? Heroic Women of France. We Must Win The War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of three women, in a field, leaning over and pulling an agricultural implement in a field. Text above photograph reads: "Hero...
Photograph

Women War Workers — Avery Tractor Test

Date: 1917
Description: A woman is driving a tractor, which is pulling an implement. Several people are looking on. Caption reads: "Test of 8-16 H.P. [horsepower] Avery Tractor in...

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