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| Date: | 12 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a... |
| Date: | 11 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Union Label Trades Department poster with samples of shop cards and union buttons from various trades. Created by Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Work... |
| Date: | 05 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Members of a musician's union playing cards together. |
| Date: | 06 21 1886 |
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| Description: | A photograph of a painting depicting the surrender of Albert Parsons to Cook County Illinois authories. Parsons had been arrested in connection with a conf... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, debate a point during a Mutual Broadcasting System ra... |
| Date: | 07 14 1894 |
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| Description: | Cartoon depicting "King Debs" a man wearing a crown representing Debs American Railway Union, sitting atop the highway of trade. |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of adults listening to a lecturer, probably Dr. Philip S. Fonert talking on American history. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicag... |
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| Description: | Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school. |
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| Description: | Farmers Union Workshop eating a meal together. Tom White, extreme left, was the Tennessee legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Conducto... |
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| Description: | CIO gathering, possibly in Chattanooga. Zilphia Horton was in charge of the event. Charlie Horton, second person from Zilphia, in suit with moustache. |
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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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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture student at Highlander Folk School creating a stencil to be used to make signs. |
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| Description: | Three boys, one playing a guitar, one playing a mandolin, and one singing a song from "Favorite Radio Gems," songbook, as part of a Farmers Union Meeting a... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton leading singing at CIO School during Holiday season. At the table on the right, Myles Horton, Mike Ross, Tom Ludwig, and Joyce Mitchell. |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing an accordion and singing on a picket line. A group of men and women sit in chairs in front of a tent. Sign on left reads, "Peaceful ... |
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| Description: | Two CIO members sitting on porch outside of the Barton recreational department cabin at Highlander Folk School. One of the men is playing a guitar. |
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| Description: | A group of four hosiery workers participating in a skit and wearing accessories made from newspaper, as part of a Highlander Folk School workshop. Joie Wil... |
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| Description: | A woman (possible Leny Vanbrink) pretending as though she was fishing in a bucket as part of a CIO activity at Highlander Folk School. Three people stand b... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing the accordion and leading a sing-a-long during a Farmers Union session at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton middle at table; DeJa... |
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