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| Date: | 11 1955 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America picketers protest the hiring of temporary scab labor by the Colonial Provisions Company. Although no location or dat... |
| Date: | 02 1949 |
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| Description: | An unidentified striking member of the United Packinghouse Workers of America at the Jones-Chambliss company. This photograph appeared in the Packinghouse ... |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony. |
| Date: | 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike. |
| Date: | 09 1962 |
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| Description: | Vying to represent some Illinois packinghouse workers are (left to right) representatives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Amalgam... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con... |
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| Description: | Two representatives of the Georgia CIO, C.H. Gillman and Loren Nelleo, visiting with strikers at the Swift company's White Provisions plant. The strikers w... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 paraded on Wisconsin Avenue to draw attention to the fact that employees of the Packer Packing ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Main Street. City scene showing rows of parked cars, tall buildings, pedestrians, trolleys and advertising signs. |
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| Description: | Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric lines hang over the street. Sign in window reads: "J.B. Thompson Lawyer." |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop of Christ M. Stauffer of Monticello, with an automobile parked in front of the building. |
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| Description: | View down Main Street including light traffic and shop fronts in large brick buildings. |
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| Description: | Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Front Street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "John Wernecke Merchant Tailor," "Moore's," "Sal... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of front of the house of Daisy and L.C. Bates. The house is under construction. The walls and roof have been built, and a pile of bricks are ... |
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| Description: | Street scene with parked and moving vehicles. Buildings are along the left side and a line of trees and lampposts is along the right. |
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| Description: | Several men are working on the railroad depot in Camp Dix, which was operated by Adams Express Company. Other men and a woman are standing near the buildin... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a... |
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