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Automobile Workers Workshop

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Description: Automobile workers workshop at Highlander; the Regional Director is third from left.
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Automobile Workers Sitting Outside

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Description: A group of Automobile workers sitting outside around a table. Part of a Highlander Folk School workshop.
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United Auto Workers at Highlander

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Description: Groupportrait of members of the United Auto Workers union attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Smelter Workers

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Description: Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them.
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Smelter Workers

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Description: A group of smelter workers, with their hands raised as if responding to a question, at a Highlander Folk School workshop.
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Hosiery Workers

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Description: A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.
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Workers Eating at CIO Session

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Description: CIO session over a hedge with workers eating and drinking. Fourth from the left, Cole Danenburg, textile worker.
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Hosiery Workers Skit at Highlander

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Description: Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School.
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Hosiery Workers Laughing at Highlander

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Description: A group of four hosiery workers participating in a skit and wearing accessories made from newspaper, as part of a Highlander Folk School workshop. Joie Wil...
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Uncle Bill Thomas with His Wife

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Description: Uncle Bill Thomas with his wife. Accompanying caption reads, "Billy was local patriarch, who made all furniture at Highlander, was a lay minister and staun...
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Ford Automobile Union Meeting

Date: 1944
Description: Group portrait of Ford automobile workers union, Local 903 delegation, at a Highlander Folk School workshop.
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Fun with an Old Nail Keg

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Description: A boy named Henry rolling down a hill in an old nail keg. Part of the Highlander Folk School nursery. There is also a girl in the background with another ...
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Children with Train of Crates

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Description: A group of children, part of Highlander Folk School's nursery, making a train with wooden crates.

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