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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine - Safety Screen Added

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico.
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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine

Date: 1910
Description: Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard...
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Annex to McCormick Works Blacksmith Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys working with steel rods and belt-driven machinery to make bolts inside an annex to the blacksmith shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The fact...
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McCormick Works Employees Threading Bolts

Date: 1900
Description: Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t...
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Employees of the Lubertzy Works

Date: 1913
Description: Group of men and young boys posing in the grey iron foundry of International Harvester's Lubertzy Works (factory) in Russia. Pieces of agricultural machine...
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Brewery Tour

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Description: Tour of the Potosi Brewery.
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Campbells Soup Strikers

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

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Gisholt Sales Force

Date: 12 1906
Description: The caption on the back of this photograph reads: "Eight of the Sales force of the Gisholt Machine Company. (Refused!)" It was made by "J.H.N." A line of e...
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Man Sitting at Desk at McCormick Works

Date: 1920
Description: View of a man sitting at a desk, with a man, woman, young man and child sitting behind him. Job applicants?

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