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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union hand out leaflets at the International Harvester Co. plant during the Union's convention. A small crowd of peop... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Allis-Chalmers factory gate during strike. Railroad tracks are in the foreground and a large group of police officers stand inside of and coming out of the... |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men use teams of horses to excavate a lot to be used as the site for the future McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney." |
| Date: | 10 09 1928 |
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| Description: | View across factory yard towards a fleet of trucks. On the far left is a man sitting in an automobile, and on the far right a man is sitting in the driver'... |
| Date: | 05 15 1914 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men in and around a trench at a construction site. There is a retaining wall above the trench on the hill on the right. Another f... |
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