Date: | 12 13 1947 |
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Description: | Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a... |
Date: | 11 08 1947 |
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Description: | Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation). |
Date: | 06 21 1886 |
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Description: | A photograph of a painting depicting the surrender of Albert Parsons to Cook County Illinois authories. Parsons had been arrested in connection with a conf... |
Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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Description: | Group of adults listening to a lecturer, probably Dr. Philip S. Fonert talking on American history. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicag... |
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Description: | Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school. |
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Description: | Farmers Union Workshop eating a meal together. Tom White, extreme left, was the Tennessee legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Conducto... |
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Description: | CIO gathering, possibly in Chattanooga. Zilphia Horton was in charge of the event. Charlie Horton, second person from Zilphia, in suit with moustache. |
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Description: | Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them. |
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Description: | Zilphia Horton leading singing at CIO School during Holiday season. At the table on the right, Myles Horton, Mike Ross, Tom Ludwig, and Joyce Mitchell. |
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Description: | Zilphia Horton playing an accordion and singing on a picket line. A group of men and women sit in chairs in front of a tent. Sign on left reads, "Peaceful ... |
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Description: | A group of four hosiery workers participating in a skit and wearing accessories made from newspaper, as part of a Highlander Folk School workshop. Joie Wil... |
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Description: | A woman (possible Leny Vanbrink) pretending as though she was fishing in a bucket as part of a CIO activity at Highlander Folk School. Three people stand b... |
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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: | A man with a short tie standing up during an Alabama Farmers Union Meeting. An image in the background reads, "Peace, Abundance, Security, and Democracy f... |
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Description: | Zilphia Horton playing her accordion at a meeting of the Food and Tobacco Workers Union. On stage behind her is a "Farmers Union" sign with a graphic logo. |
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Description: | Highlander Chautauqua route traveling group that went to North Carolina and other places during the `40's. Myles and Zilphia Horton, far left. Posters re... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | To foster better farmer-labor union relations, members of United Packinghouse Workers locals 8 and 169 organized a singing caravan that performed at fairs ... |
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Description: | Dance sponsored by the Women's Activities Committee of Local 13 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America union. Although the location is unidentified... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. |
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