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| 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: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Three men pose together on a picket line at the Case plant. The man in the center holds a sign reading: "Case Local demands justice." The Case eagle on a g... |
| Date: | 09 21 1937 |
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| Description: | A man stands in a lift attached to the bed of an International Model DR-60 truck owned by the Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company. Another man stands atop a rai... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men unload pieces of lumber from the opened boxcars of a train near the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Men load pieces of lumber from rolling carts onto piles in open-air sheds at Weber Works in Auburn Park. |
| 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: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a brick processing facility that may be near a body of water. A burn-barrel is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | "With the Catholic Church steeple looming in the background, Schuster Construction men work on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney." |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney." |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two-page advertisement featuring a collage of photographs depicting the Yuba ball tread tractor at work in farm fields. A photograph of the Yuba Constructi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Trenam All-Purpose Farm Tractor with 12-24 horse power. The advertisement features four photographs of a farmer using the tractor in ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
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| Description: | York Iron Works, with a group of men posed standing in front of the construction of the blast furnace. |
| Date: | 10 1990 |
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| Description: | "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer." |
| Date: | 07 1991 |
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| Description: | "The road is being repaired on West Henni Street." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Several men are standing and sitting around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. Lumber is stacked in the yard, and in the backg... |
| Date: | 03 01 1927 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a piece of equipment holding a shovel to move the contents of an International truck owned by the Ready-Mixed Concrete Corp. into a wheelba... |
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