Date: | 11 29 1948 |
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Description: | Twenty-five members of the "Negro Farmers of America" tour a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The fa... |
Date: | 07 29 1936 |
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Description: | Workers pouring alloy into a stream of iron in the foundry of International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory was located at 2600 West 1st Blvd. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | African American worker assembling a wagon axle running gear while a co-worker is looking on at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. The factory wa... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | An African American worker driving a partially assembled International 8-16 tractor on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Another... |
Date: | 11 10 1926 |
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Description: | Workers, including some African Americans, assembling mower gear housings along an assembly line at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ... |
Date: | 06 11 1925 |
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Description: | African American worker standing and loading cargo from a crane into a railroad boxcar from an International truck. Another worker is sitting behind the dr... |
Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
Date: | 03 1974 |
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Description: | A group of male and female workers are posing around a sign and a crankcase sitting on the factory floor. The sign reads "Melrose Park Plant / March, 1974 ... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | Two men load bundles of plywood(?) onto the bed of an International KB-7 owned by Burnside Construction Company. The truck had a 157-inch wheelbase and a B... |
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Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 25 voting to authorize a strike against the Wilson Packing Company. The authorization passed 10 to ... |
Date: | 08 1952 |
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Description: | Four members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 56 employed at the Illinois Meats Company: (left to right) Bill Murdock, Mike Mickle, Bill... |
Date: | 08 1951 |
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Description: | Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Long tables and chairs in a dining hall, probably at the McCormick Works. The tables are covered in table cloths and several cooks stand in the background.... |
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Description: | Exterior view of men walking into the Chicago headquarters of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Local 594, all employees of the Wilson Packin... |
Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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Description: | Factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a strike. A uniformed police officer looks on from the right. The workers are picketing ne... |
Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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Description: | International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works. |
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Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an African American woman posing in front of a wooden bench and a velvet curtained backdrop. She is wearing a long dress emb... |
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Description: | A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of st... |
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Description: | A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of An... |
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