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Bales of Manila or Cotton Being Unloaded

Date: 1905
Description: Men are standing near an open sided building unloading bales of manila or cotton.
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Men Inspecting Raw Sisal

Date: 02 08 1911
Description: Men inspecting piles of raw sisal indoors at McCormick Works. A white backdrop is hanging in the background.
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Binders, Parts, Twine Mechanism

Date: 
Description: A man is standing among binders, parts, and twine mechanism at McCormick Works.
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Twine Manufacturing Area

Date: 1910
Description: Men are standing inside what may be International Harvester's Osborne Works. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the ceiling.
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Twine Manufacturing Machines

Date: 09 29 1913
Description: A man is standing on a ladder up near the exposed ceiling of a factory. He is looking at belt driven machinery running twine manufacturing machines.
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Man Working with Twine Manufacturing Machine

Date: 09 29 1913
Description: A man is working with a twine manufacturing machine on a factory floor. Bales of twine are in the background.
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Man Operating Twine Manufacturing Machine

Date: 09 29 1913
Description: Man operating twine manufacturing machine indoors on factory floor. Another man is working in the background.
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Man Operating Twine Manufacturing Machine

Date: 09 29 1913
Description: Man operating twine manufacturing machine indoors on factory floor. Another man is working in the background.
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Man Operating Twine Manufacturing Machine

Date: 09 29 1913
Description: A man is crouching down a holding onto some twine (hemp) in part of the machinery underneath a manufacturing machine indoors on factory floor.
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Group of Men Posing Outdoors at Osborne Plant

Date: 12 31 1913
Description: A group of men are posing outdoors in front of a brick building at the Osborne Plant. There is a stack of Osborne Standard Twine in the center and a sign f...
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Plea for Public Power

Date: 06 26 1954
Description: A man stands at a podium and reads from a sheet of paper. Several men are seated at tables and desks, and are looking at him. Caption reads: "PLEA FOR PUBL...
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New York City CIO Council Unemployment Conference

Date: 03 06 1954
Description: Textile Workers Union (TWU) Director of Research Solomon Barkin stands at a microphone. Next to him, six men are seated at a table with a handmade banner t...
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Profits Outpaced Sales

Date: 01 06 1951
Description: A man stands in front of a poster on an easel and points to a line. The poster reads: TEXTILE SALES WENT UP IN '50 BUT PROFITS WENT THROUGH THE ROOF. Poste...
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Community Services Session

Date: 06 1957
Description: Five men and two women are at a table in front of an audience. One man is standing and gesturing. Caption reads: "DAY LONG SESSION on community services in...
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Solomon Barkin

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Solomon Barkin, director of research for Textile Workers Union of America. Barkin studied economics at Columbia University (1928). He directed ...
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George Baldanzi

Date: 1952
Description: Portrait of George Baldanzi, founding executive vice president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). He was deputy director for Operation Dixie, ...
Drawing

George Baldanzi

Date: 
Description: Line-drawn caricature profile of TWUA founding executive vice president George Baldanzi.
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Operation Dixie

Date: 1946
Description: Two men sit together in conversation. The man on the left is smoking a cigarette, and both men have booklets in front of them for the CIO's 8th Constitutio...
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Local 326 Installation Ceremony

Date: 11 03 1951
Description: Four men are behind a table, one of them standing. A banner in the background includes the logo for the Textile Workers Union of America, and the words "Lo...
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George Baldanzi

Date: 05 15 1949
Description: Portrait of TWUA founding executive vice president George Baldanzi. A note says that it was taken at the Stewards Dinner.

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