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| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Men and women employed by Malleable Iron Range Co. making artillery shells to be used in the Korean War. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Two high school students working at the Quality Service Laundry. From left: Bonnie Warren, and Donna Wolfe, both seniors at West High. These students divid... |
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| Description: | View of a group of men in a workshop learning to repair radiators for a war training class. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Three high school students loading a truck at Gardner Baking Company. From left: Edward Witek, Central High, Russell Kundert, Vocation High, and in the bac... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers tend to part of a high speed gun carriage at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
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| Description: | A soldier carrying supplies to the headquarters, preparing to head to the front. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Women working in the N.R. Allen Sons tannery during World War I. The women are finishing leather. An older man is hauling a cart load of hides at center. |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Eight high school students taking a few minutes off from their duties at Oscar Mayer and Company. From left: Kenneth Morrow, East High; Edward Wingen, East... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. A set sc... |
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| Description: | Necessary work in enemy territory. Austrian engineers laying rails for a roadbed to make the transport of provisions easier. |
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| Description: | The bad roads in Serbia are damaging to wagons and wheels. As a result one finds temporary field smithy's set up everywhere in Serbia. |
| Date: | 10 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Workers use an industrial tractor to move factory machinery into place at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker wearing saftey goggles and welding a shell casing at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. In anothe... |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Factory worker holding an artillery shell manufactured at Malleable Iron Range Co. |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | Soldiers working on slit trench in the rain on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They all hail from Michigan. ... |
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| Description: | Women employees at Four Wheel Drive's Clintonville factory. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers unloading a rail car on a loading dock at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun M... |
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