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| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Multiple views of Oslo. Some pictured are the woolen mill and the dam. |
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| Description: | A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee. |
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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: | A group of four hosiery workers participating in a skit and wearing accessories made from newspaper, as part of a Highlander Folk School workshop. Joie Wil... |
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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: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely". |
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| Description: | A man and child stand near an ox team hauling wagons loaded with bags of wool in New Mexico. Caption reads: "Ox Team Hauling Wool, New Mexico." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of women working in the spinning room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle as president. Caption... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A young boy and a man are shown among the machinery in the carding room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle a... |
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| Description: | Four girls gather on the bank of a creek outside Ashley-Bailey Silk Mill. |
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| Description: | A hand-weaver sits by his loom in Paterson, a city that dominated the weaving of high quality broad silk and ribbon in 1913. |
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| Description: | A group of women work at a loom outdoors. Caption reads: "Drawn Workers, Brownsville, Texas." |
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| Description: | A page from a Greenville Mills employee brochure showing employees enjoying themselves playing baseball, playing at a family picnic, and smoking. |
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| Description: | Women, men and children pose on the front porch of the main house. Men and women occupy the rocking chairs that are lined up on the left along the porch ra... |
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| Description: | Young women pose in a hosiery factory where they are employed. |
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| Description: | Billhead of Island Woolen Mills of Baraboo, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of M.J. Drown's Island Woolen Mills building, people loading a horse-drawn... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of young women in kimonos examining fabric while young men look on. In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie records that fabric is one of... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman squat on a mat on the floor, whipping wool to prepare it for use. They wear white scarves on their heads. The bottom right of the image c... |
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