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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Harnischfeger workers aren't on strike but they do their bit every week to help those who are. This picture was taken at the end of a regular Wednesday mo... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers stocking the strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Fred Koratko, Corneli... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Man butchering a hog, which is hanging on a meat hook. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Factory workers eating lunch outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company before 19... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Woman serving meals to factory workers in the cafeteria at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Power dam construction workers pausing during a meal in the camp dining room. Oil lamps are hanging from the ceiling; overhead electric lights are also ins... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Female cafeteria workers standing behind a counter lined with sandwiches, pies, and coffee cups at International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory. |
| Date: | 01 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley, head chef at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is shown in the refectory of Van Hise Hall with his class of apprentice chefs. Left to rig... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A farmer standing near a tractor amidst turkeys at Reif Turkey Farm. The original caption reads: "Mr. Glenn Reif uses Farmall H for general farm work, belt... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A male worker wearing a hat and apron at Johnson's Bakery removING a pan from an International reach-in cooler. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers sitting on the ground under the shade of a tree to eat lunch. Construction equipment, including an International crawler tractor, is in the backgr... |
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| Description: | Bloch indulging himself while dressed in humorous garb as a fraternity brother. Taken as an illustration for a fraternity article in Smiles magazine... |
| Date: | 07 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Volunteer worker Mrs. Charles (Elnora) Wirth stands at the counter in the American Red Cross Blood Center canteen, while nurses' aide Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) N... |
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| Description: | Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C... |
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| Description: | Four ranch hands sitting and standing on the left. In the background two men walk near horses. |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | A zoo keeper is standing beside Winkie, the Vilas Zoo elephant, as she is eating her "birthday cake" to celebrate her birthday and second anniversary at th... |
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