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| Date: | 06 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Six firefighters are shown at First Assistant Fire Chief Leonard Sime's retirement party inside the Central Fire Station, 18 South Webster Street. Lieutena... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the first national convention after the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
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| Description: | An undated photograph of a convention of District 1 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign in the background bears a picture of President Fr... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the lobby, with three wicker chairs sitting in a row in the foreground, and a large room behind it that includes the front desk and numero... |
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| Description: | A view of the dance hall interior. At the back of the room is the stage, with curtains hung on either side. On the stage are stools and a piano. Large wind... |
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| Description: | A view of the social hall and its stage. A special Unity House curtain is pulled across the front of the stage. Chairs are in rows lining the base of the s... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the store's interior, with people posing behind the counters. Some of the items for sale are glassware, fruit, and souvenir penna... |
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| Description: | A view of the dining room with chairs around tables with place settings. The tables are arranged in rows, each set with silverware, cups and saucers, and w... |
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| Description: | View down center of the dining room, looking toward the entrance door. The hall leading from the door to the dining room proper has a long carpet running i... |
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| Description: | Interior of a dining room at Forest Park Hotel, purchased by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union in the early 1900's. Women stand among tables ... |
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| Description: | Men and women in a semi-circle holding hands and posing for the camera inside the International Ladies Garment Workers Unity House. The house was rented in... |
| Date: | 09 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of ten officials of the Madison Painters Union, Local 802, as they plan their union's 50th Anniversary. |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Posed group shot of the United Steelworkers of America District 32 Convention Resolutions Committee. The men wear suits and are all sitting or standing aro... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | View of a metal stairway and a train car wheel and undercarriage. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry w... |
| Date: | 01 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Women casting ballots at the Lithographers' Local #7 Strike vote. The ballot box is on a stage at the front of a large crowded room. |
| Date: | 01 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Lithographers' Local #7 strike vote meeting held in a large auditorium. A man is standing speaking and every seat in the house is filled. |
| Date: | 02 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Norman Ebron Band, members of American Federation of Musicians, segregated Local 587, play stand-up bass, coronet, clarinet and piano in front of a white a... |
| Date: | 02 18 1950 |
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| Description: | The Norman Ebron Band, members of the American Federation of Musicians, segregated Local 587, play coronet, saxophone, piano, drums and standup bass in a d... |
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| Description: | Governor Anthony S. Earl stands at a podium on a stage. A man sits at a table draped in blue cloth on the left. Behind Earl sit several men in chairs. Some... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man speaking at a podium and groups of people sitting at tables around the room. A banner suspended from a balcony reads: "Industrial Re... |
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