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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. |
| 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: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. |
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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: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Ruby Allman (right), secretary of Local 538 Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workmen of North America at Oscar Mayer and Company, signs up Dorothy Braun... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers stand at tables while working to assemble farm equipment at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| 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: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Three women standing in a factory cafeteria, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| 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: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
| Date: | 10 1990 |
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| Description: | "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Several men are standing around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There are wheelbarrows filled with building materials and s... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Four men are transporting a cart of goods from a railroad car to a loading dock. The men are most likely employees of the International Harvester Osbourne ... |
| Date: | 02 1995 |
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| Description: | Janet Wendling and Marilyn Zingsheim package brick cheese at Widmer Cheese. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Factory workers, possibly including two women, are wearing work clothes while standing at work stations in a room filled with large machinery at Internatio... |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a canteen filled with women dressed in work clothes and hats. The room is equipped with wooden tables, chairs, and white dishes. ... |
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