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| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect ball bearings at an International Harvester factory. The factory produced aerial torpedoes for the U.S. Military. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female workers assembling torpedoes for the U.S. Military at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This large group of women employe... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Woman working on a midget mill that cuts spiral grooves and moves at a rate of about 3500 r.p.m. The woman operating this machine was a former drill press ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1865 |
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| Description: | Albumen print of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Thirty-six maidens in white surround Lincoln's hearse as it passes through the funeral arch, probabl... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International Harvester "femineered" refrigerators. Features a woman in a black evening gown standing next to a refrig... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International Harvester "femineered" refrigerators. Features a woman leaning in on a refrigerator and an inset of a wo... |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | A businessman in a three-piece suit and hat sits behind a large desk with a paper in his hand, while a secretary in a long, high-collared dress writes on a... |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
| Date: | 07 18 1933 |
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| Description: | Miss Lillian Anderson, Queen of the "A Century of Progress" exhibition, signing photographs at the International Harvester exhibit. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Harriet Rhoads at the time of her marriage to Lieutenant D.G. Hudson of Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois (1862). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Poster for the 1934 "Century of Progress" World's Fair in Chicago showing a woman surrounded by abstract representations of the sights and sounds of the fa... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Midge Miller of Madison talking with an unidentified supporter of Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic Convention. Listening intently to their conversation is... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with head in hands, exhibits obvious fatigue and frustration during the 1961 Armou... |
| Date: | 05 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Estelle Morrison, Wausau, new Republican National Committeewoman, Wisconsin delegate to the Republican Party National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois,... |
| Date: | 04 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Eby, Madison, delegate from Wisconsin to the Republican Party National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Date: | 07 17 1944 |
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| Description: | National Democratic political convention in Chicago. Shown, left to right, are: George Schlotthauer, Democratic candidate for the Wisconsin State Senate fr... |
| Date: | 07 17 1944 |
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| Description: | National Democratic political convention in Chicago. Delegates William B. Rubin, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Cecilia Garvin, Elroy. |
| Date: | 06 17 1944 |
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| Description: | National Democratic political convention in Chicago. State Democratic Chairman, Thomas R. King, and delegate, Cecilia Garvin from Elroy. |
| Date: | 06 1975 |
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| Description: | People watching a program in the "Agrisphere," an 80-capacity theater in a 40-foot-high geodesic dome in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry paid fo... |
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