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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks promoting United States government bonds. Features a color illustration of an International K-line truck pullin... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | 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 ce... |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | Khaki-covered Bibles being made by the American Bible Society for American fighters during World War I. The goal was one million testaments. All the worker... |
| Date: | 08 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Premium list for the 1944 Junior Fair, the 7th such event designed for young people ages 12-21, made a strong graphic and intellectual link between victory... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW... |
| Date: | 03 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor... |
| Date: | 07 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of H.H. Gerth, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Gerth was born and grew up in Kassel, Germany, and escaped about s... |
| Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Two workers at the United State Armed Forces Institute are: Robert Halverson and John Barr, recently in the armed services and participants in the educatio... |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Kiwanis Club honors city newspapers for their wartime service. Left to right: William T. Evjue, editor of the Capital Times; Edward Doane, Govenor G... |
| Date: | 01 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray, and her younger brother Frank are reading an RMR "help wanted" advertisement in the "Wisconsin State Journal." The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-... |
| Date: | 01 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray being interviewed by Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen at the RMR plant. The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac was located in th... |
| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster issued by the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin to persuade Wisconsin farmers of the value of a silo. Farmers were par... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Map of Concentration Camps in Germany, titled "1943 31 Zuchtstationen," where the SS kept angora rabbits for their wool raising projects at concentration c... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of war correspondents and photographers on a ship on their way to Australia, February-March, 1942. Byron Darnton, reporter for the New York... |
| Date: | 06 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Exhibit developed by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers, Inc., of Wisconsin Rapids, concerning the manufacture of a paper-based plastic, consowel... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Mechanical engineer Alex Gabay (right) and his assistant J.E. Lass (left) at an International Harvester war production factory (20 mm gun plant?). The men ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women who have applied for employment at the new St. Paul Works sit around a table. They are being interviewed by representatives of Int... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers posing under a sign at Internationl Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "The Production Drive Committee of Harvester's gun ... |
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