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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Factory workers handle twine piled on wheeled carts at Hamilton Twine Mills. |
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| Description: | Image caption reads: "Textile workers conference, Central Alabama, 1939-seated back row Weatherspoon, next Zilphia Horton, next Alabama director, behind po... |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men use a lift to stack bales of bound fiber in a storage area, possibly at the McCormick Works twine mill. The company used sisal and hemp fiber to ... |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker balling binder twine with a machine, most likely at International Harvester's McCormick Works Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers at the McCormick Works twine mill use machines to wind twine onto spools. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man standing at a machine, in what is possibly the McCormick Works twine mill, handles bags, probably containing sisal to be made into twine. |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | A factory worker loads bags of twine onto a conveyor belt, while another waits at the top of the pile to stack the twine in a storage space, possibly at th... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior office view showing Frank James Harwood, General Manager of Appleton Woolen Mills. Harwood became general manager in 1882 and served as the compa... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the Appleton Woolen Mills from the south, circa 1895. The three-story building in the right front was constructed in 1893. The long, two-story bui... |
| Date: | 03 1876 |
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| Description: | Advertising circular written on Appleton Woolen Mills letterhead. In 1876 the Appleton Woolen Mills were operated by Hutchinson & Co. Appleton Woolen Mi... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Award certificate presented to the Appleton Woolen Mills at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The company won a bronze medal at the Fair for its paper makers... |
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| Description: | First textile workers organizing convention. Cole Dandenburg with his wife on left. Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton on right. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike. |
| 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". |
| Date: | 12 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul a long train of carts holding bundles of fiber, possibly for burlap. Another man is lo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man rides on the back of a train of carts loaded with burlap sacks as it enters the Chase Bag Company warehouse from the steamship dock. |
| Date: | 05 18 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul carts loaded with what appear to be bundles of burlap fabric. There is an industrial b... |
| Date: | 05 05 1926 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by Ascher's 100% Pure Wool Knit Goods Company parked in front of a building marked: "Gerosa Haulage & Warehouse." One man is si... |
| Date: | 09 19 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a woolen mill, as seen from across a river and dam. |
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