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| Date: | 08 26 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the third annual outing of the employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMERL) at Waukesha Beach. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w... |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to pull a wagon at the Sells Floto circus. Children and adults are walking nearby, and a tent and l... |
| Date: | 09 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, stands at a podium to address the audience at the Milwaukee Works "E" award ceremony. T... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of an illustrated poster featuring uniformed International Harvester Company servicemen and women marching in a procession away from fact... |
| Date: | 11 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel. |
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| Description: | Events leading up to the merger of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and the United Packinghouse Workers unions included this appearance by Patrick Gorman of the... |
| Date: | 04 26 1975 |
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| Description: | Speakers platform for the Jobs Now Rally called by the AFL-CIO at R.F. Kennedy Stadium. The rally was called to draw attention to the problems caused by th... |
| Date: | 04 1975 |
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| Description: | "Irwin Silber, an editor of the 'Guardian'," a radical weekly newspaper, speaking to an anti-war rally in a square near a large sculpture. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people gathered around a booth on Joe Wing's farm to eat during an alfalfa presentation. A sign on the booth reads, "Served by ... |
| Date: | 2005 |
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| Description: | Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health & Human Services (2001-2005) being interviewed while on a visit to La Crosse. |
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| Description: | Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health & Human Services (2001-2005) being interviewed while on a visit to La Crosse. |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day rally with a crowd of Union members on the steps of a large stone building. Banners read "United Labor 51st May Day: 1886-1937" "German-American W... |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | John Schmitt, AFL CIO president; Manuel Salas, labor contractor for Libby, McNeil and Libby; Cesar Chavez and Eliseo Medina sit together on a panel in Milw... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers testify at the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) hearing after a strike in Bancroft. Seated on the left is Obreros Unid... |
| Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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| Description: | 30 marchers of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) march from Wautoma to Madison on Highway 21 to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food industry corporatio... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, in a white shirt and standing in front of the microphone with his arm raised, addresses a rally at the top of the steps in front of Waushara C... |
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