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TWUA Strike Meeting

Date: 06 13 1954
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...
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Twine Mill Worker and Machinery

Date: 1900
Description: A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-...
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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard...
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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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Women Working in Canvas Department of McCormick Works

Date: 07 22 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,...
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African American Workers at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 1905
Description: Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ...
Poster

Binder Twine Advertising Poster

Date: 1924
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester's "Big Ball" twine. The twine was marketed under the "McCormick," "Deering," and "International" brand names...
Poster

The "Big Ball" Twine Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for the "Big Ball" of binder twine produced by the International Harvester Company. Features an illustration of a big ball of twine.
Poster

Binder Twine

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for International Binder Twine. The Big Ball twine is shown along with a guarantee of its quality. The poster was made for use in the Un...
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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi displaying fabric samples to a couple sitting on living room furniture at Frautschi's, Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Kessenich's Silk Department

Date: 07 18 1927
Description: Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground.
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Kessenich's Linen Department

Date: 03 28 1927
Description: Kessenich's linen department. A clock is on the wall above the entrance, and a water fountain is on the wall on the left..
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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
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Marvalon Display Window

Date: 07 24 1947
Description: Marvalon display window, H.S. Manchester's Incorporated, 2 East Mifflin Street, with a mannequin ironing a sample of Marvalon, "A tough plastic film reinfo...
Postcard

Rock River Dam

Date: 1908
Description: The Rock River Dam with the Woolen Mills building in the background. Caption reads: "Rock River Dam, Jefferson, Wis."
Print

Waukesha Woolen Mills

Date: 1880
Description: View of the Waukesha Woolen Mills buildings. Caption reads: "The picture above shows the Waukesha Woolen Mills buildings as they looked around 1880. At lef...
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Woolen Mills

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of a woolen mill.
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Woolen Mills

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of a woolen mill.
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Woolen Mills

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of a woolen mill with an advertisement sign for Patton's Sun Proof-Paints in the front.
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Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company

Date: 1905
Description: Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company, established in 1890 by George Fairfield.

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