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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rear view of an automobile resting alongside a snow-filled Michigan Avenue during the winter. Other automobiles are parked near commercial buildings in the... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An automobile resting in a bank of snow along a road near commercial buildings, probably on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Signs on the buildings read: "Edelw... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Illinois Central World's Fair Transportation Center at Van Buren Street. Several pedestrians cross a bridge leading to trains and lake... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of vendors gathered in the South Water Street Market. Horse-drawn carriages and automobiles park in rows between commercial buildings on eit... |
| Date: | 01 30 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of striking International Harvester factory workers holding signs and an American flag as they stand near the company's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered outside International Harvester's Deering Works at Fullerton and River, as a crew of firemen works to extinguish a fire i... |
| Date: | 03 25 1941 |
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| Description: | Police officer and marchers from a Congress of Industrial Organizations (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) union clash outside Intern... |
| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | Factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a strike. A uniformed police officer looks on from the right. The workers are picketing ne... |
| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 11 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl... |
| Date: | 07 31 1952 |
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| Description: | View from above of police officers forming a line through striking workers near International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption reads: "Harvest... |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a large stone building with arches of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 holding giant pennie... |
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| Description: | Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 march across a plaza in protest. Some are carrying signs shaped like giant pennies. Disab... |
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| Description: | A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of An... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | International KB-5 truck unloading at loading dock. Original caption reads: "An International KB-5 with 76-inch wheelbase owned by Motor Cargo Incorporated... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of man loading a bouquet into the back of an International D-2 panel van owned by Lou's Flower Shop. The truck is parked along a commercia... |
| Date: | 01 18 1939 |
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| Description: | View from across street of a man unloading newspapers from the back of an International D-Series panel truck owned by the Charles Levy Circulation Company.... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man removes a package from the back of an International D-15 truck owned by Atlas Linen Supply Company. The vehicle is parked along the curb in front of ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Entrance of an office building of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at 212 Market Street. The street around the building is full of rubble and appea... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A florist's truck drives past an intersection in a business district. Buildings in the background have signs reading "Delaware Towers Grill" and "Hotel Mar... |
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