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Loggers Posing on Railroad Tracks

Date: 1896
Description: Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Photograph

Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
Photograph

Sherman M. Booth

Date: 
Description: Sherman Booth (1812-1904), abolitionist editor and leader.
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
Photograph

Men at Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Group of men posing standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. In the foreground one man is sitting on a pile of logs.
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Martin Luther King and Labor Leaders

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Description: Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA c...
Photograph

Madison Dye Works Party

Date: 12 20 1947
Description: Group portrait of men and women at the Madison Dye Works party. Included in the portrait on the left is an accordion player. One man sitting on the floor ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Photograph

Portrait of Three Men

Date: 
Description: A studio portrait of three men in front of a painted backdrop. Two sitting men, possibly lumberjacks, wear wool clothes with suspenders and heavy boots, wh...
Photograph

Two Men Sawing a Tree

Date: 1890
Description: Sigvart Solbrg, (left) and Anton Follstad, (right) sawing a tree down during winter.
Photograph

Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
Photograph

Liberty Fleet

Date: 1942
Description: Four men, including Fowler McCormick (third from left), stand in front of the "Liberty Fleet" of International trucks decorated with United States flags. F...
Photograph

Max Pollack, Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, and Milt Polland

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo...
Photograph

South African Deering Office

Date: 10 22 1925
Description: Six male staff members standing on the sidewalk in front of a Deering dealership in South Africa. The "Deering" brand was sold by International Harvester C...
Photograph

Men with Cows and Cream Separator

Date: 08 18 1922
Description: Two men are standing and holding a bull and a cow on the farm of Jerry Bacon. An International Harvester cream separator is between the men, and a barn is ...
Photograph

Union Christmas Party

Date: 12 21 1951
Description: The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli...
Photograph

Harry Dankoler with Two Men

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Description: Harry Dankoler with two other men, possibly Joe Leighton and Archie, in Yewdale's office. Another man stands behind them.
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Farmer Picking Corn by Hand

Date: 1911
Description: A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon.
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Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...

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