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Floralo Incense Company Factory

Date: 09 18 1929
Description: A man operates baking and drying machinery at the Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street.
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Unloading Leaves onto Decorticator Elevator

Date: 1949
Description: Factory workers unload leaves onto a decorticator elevator, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Unload...
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Sisal Fiber Processing

Date: 1949
Description: Factory worker hangs sisal fiber over a railing, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The fiber as it comes ...
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Weighing a Bale of Sisal Fiber

Date: 1949
Description: A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s...
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Employees of the Western Printing Company

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Description: A man teaches a boy practical printing with large type in a proof press at Western Printing Company.
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Towel Weaving

Date: 1938
Description: Two men weaving towels at looms.
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Mine and Workers

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Description: Group portrait of workers posing outside a mine, probably in Hurley, Wisconsin. Three young boys stand behind the group among stacks of logs.
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Men Working Near a Large Building

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Description: A group of eleven men is posing outdoors in front of a two-story building. On the far left is a man working a large bellows, perhaps for blacksmithing. Mos...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh...

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