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| Date: | 12 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers sitting at long tables with coffee cups at the Deering Twine Mill cafeteria. A large coffee bar is in the back right corner of the r... |
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| Description: | Women sorting peanuts in the Gwaltney and Bunkley Peanut Factory. Caption reads: "Sorting Peanuts, Gwaltney & Bunkley Peanut Factory, Smithfield, WVA." |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer and Office Manager, Kristine Miescke, go over reports in their office. Widmer's ships cheese to every state in the union. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | County farm extension agent talks with Potato World employees. |
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| Description: | Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat. |
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| Description: | A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Hand-lettered protest signs and United Farm Workers (UFW) paper flags taped to a concrete wall in response to an official posting by the Fall River Canning... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a notice posted by the Fall River Canning Company in response to striking workers. The left notice is posted in English and on the right is Spa... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Cranberries being loaded onto a conveyor belt. Women are sorting cranberries as they move along the belt. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Male workers standing at stations positioned along a wall of windows inside the McCormick Reaper Works. A belt-driven power system is suspended from the ce... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa... |
| Date: | 10 1990 |
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| Description: | "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer." |
| Date: | 02 1995 |
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| Description: | Janet Wendling and Marilyn Zingsheim package brick cheese at Widmer Cheese. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Hillsboro Canning Plant. A row of female and male workers are standing amongst the plant's corn processing machinery. The women have t... |
| Date: | 06 11 1925 |
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| Description: | A man is driving an industrial tractor pulling a train of carts. The carts are loaded with parts, tanks, and barrels. In the background are factory buildin... |
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