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Picketers in Favor of Continued Price Controls

Date: 07 19 1946
Description: Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally.
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Packinghouse Workers Picket Line

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Members of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America and their families walking the picket line.

"Picket Duty - Everyone's Job" Even the youngste...

Photograph

Help My Daddy Win

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Description: Kensell Willingham, son of a worker out for eight months on strike against O'Sullivan Rubber Company, holds a sign that reads "Help My Daddy Win". Caption ...
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Children on Curb with Uncollected Rubbish

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Uncollected garbage on South Hamilton Street being viewed by two children during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union.
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Textile Workers Strike

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Description: Textile workers strike in Alabama. Signs in back read, "This Company Is Unfair To The Laboring Class + It Is Your Fight As Well As Ours. Don't Scab. Dal...
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Garment Workers Strike

Date: 1972
Description: Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company.
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Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
Drawing

WSEU Strike Poster

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Description: Hand-drawn poster for the Wisconsin State Employees Union (WSEU), Local 171 and Local 2412, announcing "People vs State on Strike". Illustration depicts a ...
Photograph

Campbells Soup Strikers

Date: 
Description: Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant.
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Kubicki Family

Date: 09 05 1977
Description: A man, a woman, and two children are sitting together on the front walk steps in front of a house. Caption reads: "Dennis Kubicki, his wife, Sandy, and the...
Poster

Join the Boycott! Don't Buy Gallo Wines.*

Date: 
Description: Poster features a photograph of people holding signs that read: "NFWA (National Farm Workers Association) Huelga" and include the eagle symbol. Text along ...
Photograph

Boys on a Donkey

Date: 1901
Description: Group portrait of three boys sitting on a donkey.

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