Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Female workers using machines to ball twine at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The Deering works was located at Fullerton and Clybourn ... |
Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,... |
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: | 12 24 1940 |
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Description: | Lowell Frautschi displaying fabric samples to a couple sitting on living room furniture at Frautschi's, Incorporated, 219 King Street. |
Date: | 07 18 1927 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A man operates a balling machine while another handles spools of binder twine. The men may have been working at the McCormick twine mill in Chicago. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ... |
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Description: | A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee. |
Date: | 04 26 1939 |
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Description: | Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School. |
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Description: | Textile workers strike in Alabama. Signs in back read, "This Company Is Unfair To The Laboring Class + It Is Your Fight As Well As Ours. Don't Scab. Dal... |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Factory workers handle twine piled on wheeled carts at Hamilton Twine Mills. |
Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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Description: | Three men use a lift to stack bales of bound fiber in a storage area, possibly at the McCormick Works twine mill. The company used sisal and hemp fiber to ... |
Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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Description: | Female factory workers at the McCormick Works twine mill use machines to wind twine onto spools. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | A man standing at a machine, in what is possibly the McCormick Works twine mill, handles bags, probably containing sisal to be made into twine. |
Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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Description: | A factory worker loads bags of twine onto a conveyor belt, while another waits at the top of the pile to stack the twine in a storage space, possibly at th... |
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Description: | First textile workers organizing convention. Cole Dandenburg with his wife on left. Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton on right. |
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