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| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International 5488 tractor on display in International Harvester's Farmall Works (factory). A sign above the tractor reads: "Final T... |
| Date: | 03 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Six of the speakers for the farmer-labor "unity meeting" held at the Loraine Hotel; left to right: N.R. Johnson, head of the Railway Brotherhoods; Claude R... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a man in his pajamas carryin... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente... |
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| Description: | Farmers Union Workshop eating a meal together. Tom White, extreme left, was the Tennessee legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Conducto... |
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| Description: | A Farmers Union discussion at Highlander Folk School. Jim Patton appears fourth from left. |
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| Description: | A youthful member of the Farmers Union, working a manual plow. |
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| Description: | A child from the East Tennessee Farmers Union milking a cow covered with flies. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center. |
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| Description: | Ike Church at a CIO bar-b-que, cutting a pork shank. |
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| Description: | Two men cleaning hogs for a CIO Bar-B-Que at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A father and son picking tobacco. East Tennessee Farmers Union. |
| Date: | 04 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving the John Deere factory read literature from United Packinghouse of America workers on strike at a nearby plant. Although the location of th... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Booth sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 46 at the Black Hawk County Fair. The booth included a special exhibit that illustrated how both... |
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| Description: | A view of the garden, with four men tending to the plants. In the background to the left are two large outbuildings connected by a smaller structure. |
| Date: | 05 10 1947 |
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| Description: | Conference room at the United Auto workers (UAW) farm implement conference. Attendees sit at banquet tables and stand along the walls in the crowded room. |
| Date: | 05 10 1947 |
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| Description: | Conference room at the United Auto workers (UAW) farm implement conference. Attendees sit at banquet tables and stand along the walls in the crowded room. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | On the right, Jesus Salas, leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm worker union. On the left, John Schmitt, president of the AF... |
| Date: | 04 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Part of the crowd of National Farmers Organization demonstrators who assembled near the Oscar Mayer and Company plant as a "show of strength" to get higher... |
| Date: | 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A man sorts vegetables into a basket while a girl looks on. Caption reads: "Thiensville (vicinity), Wis. Sept, 1943. Meyer Adelman and granddaughter of Met... |
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