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This box is made up of four series: 1) Subject Series; 2) Printed Material; 3) Don & Kay Kluck Series; and 4) Photograph Series.

Box 2 is made up of oversize journal articles, a newspaper article, publications, advertising posters, and photographs.

A mat framed copy of a joke that was printed in the Farm Implement News poking fun at Joseph M. Tucker.

This article is a history of the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade.

This article is about Joseph M. Tucker announcement of his resignation from the Massey-Harris Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin and how he was accepting a major executive position with a leading prefabricated housing company.

This is a speech that Joseph M. Tucker where he was introducing the "Famine Fighters" Program after World War II.

This pamphlet explains America's dwindling food stock in 1943 and how "Massey-Harris foresaw the critical situation of the 1944 harvest - a record crop production with too few men and combines to handle the vast acreages." Recognizing the seriousness of the situation the government approved the plan for a Harvest Brigade (a fleet of 500 Self-Propelled Combines) that "pledged to harvest more acres with less fuel, manpower and equipment than ever before in the history of the world."

This is an advertising booklet for the Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Combines. This booklet explains how the combines work and how they will save manpower, grain, fuel, and provide farmers with more crop.

This booklet is advertising for the Massey-Harris tractors. It explains the design, features, and attachments of the tractors. It also includes advertising for the Model 21A Self-Propelled Combine.

This booklet is a postwar planning guide for farmers. It includes a guide to farm tax management, a checklist of machine and equipment repairs and/or what can be sold and/or what is needed, and a 5-year farm inventory sheet.

This is a photocopy of a directory that lists service and supply depots for the Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade.

This Owner's Manual for the No. 21 & 21 A Self-Propelled Combines explains how each part of the combines work and how to store the combines.

This manual lists all the parts needed to repair the Massey-Harris No. 21 & No. 21A Reaper-Thresher.

This 1939 Organization Chart is for the Sales Department of VP & GSM. Joseph M. Tucker was in charge of the Organization Budgets Operations and Control.

This letter was written by Marian Tucker Springer describing the famine in China and letting her father, Joseph M. Tucker, know hard it was to feed her family. After reading this letter Joseph Tucker was inspired to write a proposal to the War Food Administration to began the Harvest Brigade.

This is a photocopy of a conditional sale contract and order for a new #21 SP - 12 foot Massey-Harris combine. This was purchased by Roy Kluck. He made a downpayment of $1,500 and was to pay $1,495.91 upon delivery to Enid, Oklahoma.

This is Emil H. Kluck's customer order for a new #21A SP Massey-Harris Combine. The cost of the combine was $3,866.75, the tax was $77.34, with the total price of $3,944.09.

The business card is for Emil, Roy, Ray, Harvest King's, Kluck Bro's, Custome Combining. According to the business card, the brothers had over 22 years of experience.

The sales slip is a blank Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade sales slip no. 33671. This type of sales slip was used during the 1940s as indicated on the slip as _194.

This is a photocopy of the front of a Massey-Harris Self-Propelled Harvest Brigade Official Receipt Book. It has a photograph of the combine and someone has written numbers on it. There is no indication as to what these numbers are for, although it appears to be some type of calculation and/or totals.

This story was written by Donald L. Kluck. It is about three brothers, Emil H. Kluck, Roy Kluck, and Ray Kluck. The story follows the brothers as they worked on the Harvest Brigade beginning in 1944 through 1954 and beyond.