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Haymarket Square Rally

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Photograph of an artistic rendering of a rally held at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886, before the explosion of the bomb. Haymarket Square is at the Inters...
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Bomb Explodes at Haymarket Square Rally

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: A photograph of a painting depicting the bomb exploding at police as they approach the wagon to tell the crowd to disperse from Haymarket Square. Shrapnel ...
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Police Firing on Crowd Near McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 05 03 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact...
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Wilson Boycott Parade

Date: 1959
Description: As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-...
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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Kohler Strikers

Date: 07 26 1936
Description: Kohler strikers marching along a sidewalk. Handwritten on the photograph: "Kohler Strikers '2 years after' Memorial Picket Line, July 26th, 1936."
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ACA Strikers

Date: 1946
Description: American Communications Association union members picketing while on strike against Western Union. They are carrying signs that read: "Western Union Worker...

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