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| Description: | CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping. |
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| Description: | Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School. Secretary-Treasurer Hathaway, left; and Vice-President Russell Lasley, right, standing. |
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| Description: | Bernice Williams working with a younger CIO member on a sewing machine at the South Carolina Citizenship group. |
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| Description: | A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work". |
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| Description: | Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Economics Professor James S. Earley, is vice-president of the university teachers union (Local 223 of the AFL American Fed... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing the accordion and leading a sing-a-long during a Farmers Union session at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton middle at table; DeJa... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton leading songs at Highlander during an early union CIO session. Charlie Wilson, board member, extreme right, next to him is his wife Frankie.... |
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| Description: | Two men sitting, one holding a baby in his arms, attending a Farmers Union Workshop. |
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| Description: | A family reading the newspaper "Union Farmer" together. |
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| Description: | A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 11 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the winners of the Madison Fire Fighters union poster contest, held in conjunction with the annual Firemen's ball. Left to right in the f... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five seated members of the Madison branch of Letter Carriers (#508) being served a pot luck supper in their honor by seven women at the GA... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C... |
| 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: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt and her daughter Anna have the NRA labels in their coats inspected by David Dubinsky, president of the ILG WU (left) and Raymond Ingersol... |
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| Description: | At an unidentified kosher butcher shop, a butcher holds up a chicken for a customer to examine. A sign in the background indicates that the butchers were m... |
| Date: | 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Matthew A Pinter, business agent of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 of Milwaukee, speaks from the floor during a district union convention... |
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| Description: | Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts at a breakfast meeting with a group of labor leaders. |
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