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McCormick Works Employees Threading Bolts

Date: 1900
Description: Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t...
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Shoeshine Boy

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Description: A portrait of a shoeshine boy, with a brick wall forming the backdrop. His clothes are tattered, and his work box is hanging from a strap on his left shoul...
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Communal Shower for Migrant Workers

Date: 1969
Description: A boy wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt and dark pants is barefoot and standing to the left of a communal shower hut for migrant farm workers in a Waut...

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