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Smelter Workers

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Description: A group of smelter workers, with their hands raised as if responding to a question, at a Highlander Folk School workshop.
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George Guernsey at CIO Workshop

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Description: George Guernsey, with crutches, teaching CIO students at a Highlander Folk School workshop. Chalkboard makes reference to Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman.
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CIO Students Reading

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Description: Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs".
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CIO Kitchen Duty

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Description: CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping.
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Zilphia Horton at CIO School

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Description: Two men walking to a car at the CIO School out in back of Highlander Folk School. Zilphia Horton walks on the right behind them.
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Union Center Inc., CIO

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Description: People walking up the steps under a large neon sign in front of a snowy Union Center Inc., CIO building.
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Hosiery Workers

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Description: A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.
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Farmers Union Meeting

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Description: A Farmers Union discussion at Highlander Folk School. Jim Patton appears fourth from left.
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Farmers Union Member Plowing

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Description: A youthful member of the Farmers Union, working a manual plow.
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Child Milking Cow

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Description: A child from the East Tennessee Farmers Union milking a cow covered with flies.
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Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period

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Description: Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period, on a street.
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Farmers Union Members by Fertilizer Co-op

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Description: Private building of Farmers Union Fertilizer Co-op, with three men in work clothes sitting in front. Junior Marlow on right.
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Female Rubber Workers

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Description: Rubber Workers at Highlander. Catherine Winston depicted in the center.
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Playing a Record at Highlander

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Description: CIO workshop at Highlander Folk School, featuring George Guernsey, extreme right. A group of five men gathered around a record player.
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CIO Meeting at Highlander

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Description: Three men smoking cigarettes around a table, as part of a CIO meeting at Highlander Folk School.
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Woman with Towel Helping Another Woman

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Description: A smiling woman with a towel is swabbing the side of a woman's head at a CIO or Amalgamated Transit Union workshop at Highlander Folk School. Another woman...
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School. Secretary-Treasurer Hathaway, left; and Vice-President Russell Lasley, right, standing.
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers Session

Date: 1947
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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Marion Palfi and Dan Paul at Highlander

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Description: CIO School at Highlander Folk School, featuring Marion Palfi holding a camera, and Dan Paul, the Southern PAC Director, center. An unidentified woman is on...

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