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Estelle Thompson at CIO School

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Description: Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school.
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Automobile Workers Workshop

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Description: Automobile workers workshop at Highlander; the Regional Director is third from left.
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Farmers Union Workshop Members

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Description: Members of a Farmers Union workshop at Highlander Folk School are seen relaxing in the men's dormitories on bunk beds.
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Mine, Mill, and Smelters Union

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Description: Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe.
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Smelter Workers

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Description: Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them.
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Smelter Workers

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Description: A group of smelter workers, with their hands raised as if responding to a question, at a Highlander Folk School workshop.
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School. Secretary-Treasurer Hathaway, left; and Vice-President Russell Lasley, right, standing.
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers Session

Date: 1947
Description: Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center.
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Farmers Union Meeting Near Lake

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Description: Farmers Union School gathering at Highlander. A.A. Liveright smoking a pipe and holding a camera, left; Paul Bennett, right.
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Man in Suit Talking on a Phone

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Description: An African American man wearing a suit making a telephone call.
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Student Making Stencil at Highlander

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Description: Food, Tobacco and Agriculture student at Highlander Folk School creating a stencil to be used to make signs.
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Farmers Union Workshop Member

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Description: A Farmers Union member from Astatde, Tennessee, attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Food, Tobacco, and Agricultural Workshop Participant

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Description: A member of the Food, Tobacco and Agriculture workshop at Highlander Folk School posing near a tree with a fedora and cigar in his hand.
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Learn Ideas at Highlander

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Description: Images of men with the words "Workers," "Farmers," and "Learn New Ideas at Highlander," collaged around them. Part of a series of Highlander photographic c...
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Farmers Union Baseball Game

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Description: Farmers Union baseball game at Highlander Folk School.
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Young Woman Teaching Labor Class

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Description: A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School.
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Labor Union School

Date: 08 1957
Description: People in line during lunchtime during the District 8 labor institute.
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Cotton Presentation

Date: 1915
Description: View from back of classroom of Dr. W.B. Hinds pointing at a graph as he delivers an agricultural lecture on cotton to students seated at North Alabama Bapt...

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