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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees leaving International Harvester's Bettendorf Works at the end of their work day. A sign in the background reads "Produce for Victory." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line. |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Employees of the General Motors plant in head to work. |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The office staff of International Harvester's Weber Works are posing beneath an American flag in front of the exterior office door. Weber Works produced wa... |
| Date: | 11 26 1918 |
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| Description: | Offices at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The offices are empty except for a lone switchboard operator. A sign ha... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers sitting at tables at West Pullman Works. A large sign hanging from a pipe reads: "No Smoking". |
| Date: | 03 1974 |
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| Description: | A group of male and female workers are posing around a sign and a crankcase sitting on the factory floor. The sign reads "Melrose Park Plant / March, 1974 ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Factory workers inspecting aircraft torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "Women are employed by the company to insp... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect sisal fiber, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. The fibers were stacked in piles and then weighed on a floor scale. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A woman in uniform standing by the open door of a walk-in-cooler in the cafeteria at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). A man is standing ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pose at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. Original caption states: "First 26 employees at the new Indianapolis truck engine wor... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of an illustrated poster featuring uniformed International Harvester Company servicemen and women marching in a procession away from fact... |
| Date: | 06 15 1936 |
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| Description: | A group of women sit in an International C-1 station wagon parked in front of a building marked: "Macklin Grinding Wheels." A male driver wearing a hat is ... |
| Date: | 01 16 1946 |
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| Description: | On the first day of their strike against the Cudahy Company, picketing workers in New York City permit the loading of cartons of ham and bacon for city hos... |
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| Description: | Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman sits behind a glass wall while operating a piece of machinery as part of an International Harvester display recruiting additional workers during Wo... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America members at the Armour plant in Atlanta check membership cards in an effort to bring 100 percent membership into loca... |
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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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