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Women on Strike

Date: 08 1957
Description: Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f...
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AFL v. CIO

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Description: Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing...
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Pickets in Uniform

Date: 05 1948
Description: The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We...
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On Strike at Jones-Chambliss

Date: 02 1949
Description: An unidentified striking member of the United Packinghouse Workers of America at the Jones-Chambliss company. This photograph appeared in the Packinghouse ...
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Sorting Peanuts

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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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Women in a Hosiery Factory

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Description: Young women pose in a hosiery factory where they are employed.
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Assembling Tires at Uniroyal

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Description: Women assemble tires at the Uniroyal plant. Men are also working in the background.
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The Bead Department

Date: 01 12 1949
Description: Theresa Meyer and Alice Lee cutting and splicing stock in the bead department.
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Workers in a Textile Factory

Date: 1910
Description: View down aisle of two rows of women workers using looms in a textile factory. A few men stand in the aisle. In her journal from China, Carrie describes th...
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Woman and Man using Spinning Wheels

Date: 1910
Description: A woman and a man using spinning wheels in a textile factory. In her journal Carrie describes the conditions of these factories in China as crowded and wit...
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First Gillette Tire

Date: 05 23 1917
Description: A group of men, women and children are standing and watching as a Gillette employee works on the first tire produced by the Gillette Rubber Company. From l...
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Workers Cleaning Seeds

Date: 1938
Description: A roomful of workers are cleaning seeds using "The Clipper Cleaners" manufactured by A.T. Ferrell & Co., Saginaw, Michigan. The machines are arranged in fo...
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Kohler Strikers

Date: 07 26 1936
Description: Kohler strikers marching along a sidewalk. Handwritten on the photograph: "Kohler Strikers '2 years after' Memorial Picket Line, July 26th, 1936."

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