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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory worker tightening capscrews on a Farmall Cub engine with an electric high frequency wrench at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Worker checking dimensions and weight of Farmall Cub pistons at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers are attaching a Farmall Cub engine to the clutch housing, while a third worker is attaching brake pedals. Taken on the assembly line at... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory worker completing assembly of a Farmall Cub tractor at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory worker making final adjustments to a Farmall Cub tractor before entering a paint spray booth at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory worker checking the bearing journal of a Farmall Cub crankshaft with electric gauges at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Hough Payloader with buggy being loaded by another machine. According to the original caption, the machines were the property of the American Agricultural ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory workers stack bales of twine in a warehouse at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect sisal fiber, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. The fibers were stacked in piles and then weighed on a floor scale. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker assembles a ball of twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "Tucking in the end of the twine after the... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker assembles a ball of twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "Tucking in the end of the twine after the... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker creates balls of twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "This scene shows a battery of balling machin... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers check the weight of bound twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "Matching up balls of baler twine to ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory workers weigh and pack twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker tends a machine to produce binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A factory worker loads bales of twine onto a platform, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "The workman is shown here placing bal... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A man loads packaged twine onto a conveyor belt, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "After IH baler and binder twine is packaged... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A man loads packaged twine onto a conveyor belt, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "After IH baler and binder twine is packaged... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory workers loading a Red Diamond engine with an overhead pulley and crane system at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. |
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