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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
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| Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Granere wringing clothes with a Maytag washing machine at Harvester Farm. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs. |
| Date: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
| Date: | 09 18 1929 |
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| Description: | Three women working at Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. The are tamping and boxing incense. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
| Date: | 07 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Four women assembling light sockets. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A smiling woman holding an axe holding a pose while chopping wood. |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
| Date: | 01 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Interior of Four Lakes Cleaners, 612 South Park Street, with work room showing two women pressing clothes, and racks of clean clothes. |
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| Description: | Four women workers standing in front of the Four Wheel Drive Factory. |
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| Description: | Women employees at Four Wheel Drive's Clintonville factory. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine. |
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