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TWUA Strike Meeting

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles...
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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard...
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Women Balling Twine at Deering Works

Date: 1915
Description: Female workers using machines to ball twine at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The Deering works was located at Fullerton and Clybourn ...
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Women Working in Canvas Department of McCormick Works

Date: 07 22 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,...
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Marvalon Display Window

Date: 07 24 1947
Description: Marvalon display window, H.S. Manchester's Incorporated, 2 East Mifflin Street, with a mannequin ironing a sample of Marvalon, "A tough plastic film reinfo...
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Woolen Mills

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of a woolen mill.
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Woolen Mills

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of a woolen mill.
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Woolen Mills

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of a woolen mill with an advertisement sign for Patton's Sun Proof-Paints in the front.
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Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company

Date: 1905
Description: Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company, established in 1890 by George Fairfield.
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Balling Machine in Operation

Date: 1905
Description: A man operates a balling machine while another handles spools of binder twine. The men may have been working at the McCormick twine mill in Chicago.
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Filipino Cart

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Description: A Philippine Islands man sits in a cart drawn by several water buffalo. The man may have worked in International Harvester's sisal and twine operation.
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Combing Fibre

Date: 1905
Description: Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ...
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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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McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 04 26 1939
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor.
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McCormick Twine Mill Workers

Date: 1938
Description: Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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McCormick Twine Mills

Date: 04 16 1937
Description: A man at McCormick Works Twine Mill stands in between various rows of machinery to inspect a ball of twine.
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Women at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: Female factory workers handling fabric strips at McCormick Works.
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International D-30 Truck

Date: 03 1938
Description: An International Model D-30 truck loaded with twine is parked near a body of water in Uppsala, Sweden. A large ship is in the background. The truck was own...
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French McCormick Twine Display

Date: 1935
Description: Balls of twine and agricultural machines are displayed in the "Salon De La Machine Agricole" in Paris, France.

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