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Women Balling Twine at Deering Works

Date: 1915
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 ...
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Manufacturing Binder Canvases at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: Female workers inserting wooden slats into canvas for grain binders in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Ma...
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Female Worker at Machine in Deering Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: A young woman works at her station in a factory - probably the Deering Twine Mill.
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Women at McCormick Works

Date: 1934
Description: Female factory workers balling twine in a room full of machinery at the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Women Supervisor's Conference

Date: 1943
Description: Female factory supervisors watch a man demonstrating a machine operation at the Women Supervisors' Conference held at International Harvester's West Pullma...
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Women Works at J.M. Smucker Company Plant Pasteurizer Cooler

Date: 1970
Description: A woman wearing a hairnet and a white smock reaches towards jars of jam or jelly that appear to be coming off a piece of factory equipment labeled "Pasteur...
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Deering Works Canvas Department

Date: 1910
Description: Female and male factory workers operating machines in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works. The canvas was likely used for grai...
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Workers in Printing Operation

Date: 03 26 1925
Description: Elevated view of male and female employees at work with printing presses and stacks of brochures in a "warehouse." The operation may have been part of the ...
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Woman Operating Twine Machinery

Date: 09 29 1913
Description: A woman is operating a large, complicated piece of twine machinery. She is wearing a dark skirt and blouse covered by a smock, and her hair is in a large p...
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Egg Separation

Date: 01 27 1936
Description: Women divide eggs into whites and yolks at Washington Co-operative Egg & Poultry Association.
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Woman Cleaning Twine Machinery

Date: 09 29 1913
Description: A woman is crouching next to a large piece of twine machinery cleaning it. The woman is dressed in a smock and hat. Behind her the room is filled with mach...
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Woman Posing at Twine Mill

Date: 10 27 1910
Description: A woman is standing at a twine mill near the corner of a room, near a brick window. A white backdrop is set up behind the twine mill.
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Senators' Visit to Santo André Works

Date: 09 1959
Description: Two photographs in album of an elevated view of people touring Product Engineering. in Brazil. Album of photographs is titled: "Visitation of Senators, San...

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