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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 04 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Bronzeville Bombers just after coming through with a score of 2690, putting them in tenth place in the state CIO tournament on April 5. The five men are a... |
| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov... |
| 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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | African American farmer pulling a trailer with a Farmall Cub tractor on McQueen Smith Farms. The trailer is loaded with large sacks, and a child is sitting... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Mal Whitfield approaches the finish line of a track race at the University of Wisconsin Stadium. |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif... |
| Date: | 07 27 1941 |
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| Description: | An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line. |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 05 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #4 from South Side Men's Club, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | 09 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R.... |
| Date: | 09 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef, proudly displaying his spice collection. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Rear view of an African American man plowing a field with an International diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and a disk plow. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Farm worker dumping cotton from an International Harvester cotton picker into a trailer pulled by a Farmall M tractor. |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond (b.1862), right, with Ollie Greene Lewis. |
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