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| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Harnischfeger workers aren't on strike but they do their bit every week to help those who are. This picture was taken at the end of a regular Wednesday mo... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow. |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Female workers sewing canvas side folds on binder aprons at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Factory workers eating lunch outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company before 19... |
| Date: | 10 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing workers standing in a food line. |
| Date: | 05 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior of Klinke Hatchery, 1918 Winnebago Street, with employee pouring water into tray of chicken cages, and bags of Vig-o-ray starting mash in view. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Woman serving meals to factory workers in the cafeteria at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
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| Description: | The Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen International included individuals once represented by the Fur and Leather Workers Union. A union member is... |
| Date: | 09 26 |
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| Description: | Three women, employees of Oscar Mayer Company, hand gifts to co-worker Irene Loveland, who lost her home and personal possessions in a fire. Left to right... |
| Date: | 11 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking employees, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, of the Kind & Knox Company, enjoy a break from their picket line responsibil... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | A zoo keeper is standing beside Winkie, the Vilas Zoo elephant, as she is eating her "birthday cake" to celebrate her birthday and second anniversary at th... |
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| Description: | Jack Sanders, Lewis Arms's co-worker at Greyhound, sits on a curb on Brearly Street to eat his lunch. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Ten men sitting and standing around tables set with dishes and food in the dining room of the Vinette logging camp. |
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| Description: | About twenty women sit at tables sewing on sewing machines in the sewing room of the Chippewa Woolen Mill. |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Cooks prepare food on a large iron stove while a worker stands holding coffee. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car fer... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers eating dinner. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the National Maritime Un... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | International Harvester salesmen gather at a table to share a meal at the company farm at Tifton. International Harvester offered classes on the farm in or... |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a canteen filled with women dressed in work clothes and hats. The room is equipped with wooden tables, chairs, and white dishes. ... |
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