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| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the east side of a temporary office building under construction at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. Several cars are par... |
| Date: | 04 23 1942 |
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| Description: | Men from contractor J.H. Hunzinger & Co. work on construction of the "Micro-Westco, Inc. plant addition." The addition may be part of International Harvest... |
| Date: | 05 16 1942 |
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| Description: | Men use a crane to work on the "Micro-Westco Addition" at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. The text on the crane reads: "Universal; Exca... |
| Date: | 07 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four people standing in a muddy excavated hole for a footing at the Ordnance Steel Foundry. The Foundry may have served as part of Interna... |
| Date: | 07 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve... |
| Date: | 11 20 1942 |
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| Description: | Men constructing guard towers at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Buildings and a vehicle are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men are standin on scaffolding to work on the Boiler House at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Another man is working on the ground besi... |
| Date: | 06 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on the truck assembly line at International Harvester Company of Australia's Melbourne Works. |
| Date: | 09 18 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on ladders while working on the side of a building at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Another man is standing near... |
| Date: | 07 03 1942 |
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| Description: | Men work on the interior of a partially constructed building at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at their stations inside Bay #2 at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer H.J. Nigles of Madison and Verona, Wisconsin, hands a signed pledge of cooperation in a scrap drive campaign to W.R. Ploetz ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee blockman Dale Thomas pins a "MacArthur Week" button on Charles Landaal, operator of Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. The ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three men unload scrap metal from a truck in the yard of Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. Dealer Charles Landaal is standing at rig... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men watch as workers cut down scrap iron and load it on a railroad car as part of a wartime scrap drive. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group looks on as a man uses a cutting torch to reduce scrap iron into readily marketable pieces in the farm scrap collection drive in Barton County. Acc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Allan Halvorson (center) standing next to a pile of scrap metal and rubber near his dealership building. The materials were ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | American soldier purchasing something from a food cart, a scene photographed by conservationist Sigurd Olson while traveling in Europe immediately after th... |
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| Description: | Two men are repairing typewriters at a table at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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... |
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