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| Date: | 04 26 1939 |
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| Description: | Women workers operating twine balling machines at International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill. The twine mill was part of the McCormick Works. The McCor... |
| Date: | 10 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and women working in the 5th floor mail room of International Harvester's general office building. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Satina weighs a piece of steel in the chemical laboratory at the International Harvester Company. The original caption reads: "This photo shows th... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect sisal fiber, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. The fibers were stacked in piles and then weighed on a floor scale. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers check the weight of bound twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "Matching up balls of baler twine to ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory workers weigh and pack twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers weighing bundles of twine on a scale, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two women and a girl stand near a counter inside a general store as a man shows them a product. A cat and a dog sleep on the floor in the background, and a... |
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| Description: | At Lou Braslawsky's kosher meat market, a butcher holds a roast for a customer to examine. A sign at the back of the store suggests that chickens, not beef... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Hmong farm family selling vegetables on Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square at Madison's Farmer's Market. |
| Date: | 11 08 1984 |
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| Description: | Students prepare a curried beef dinner in a Waukesha County Technical Institute cooking class led by Juanita Decker (right, in chef's hat). |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Irene Steinkopf, a former Milwaukee journalist, shops for sausage in Vienna where her husband had been assigned by the Associated Press. A bit much for two... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Oscar Mayer employees, men and women, wearing lab coats and hats who are weighing packaged meet on a variety of scales in a large... |
| Date: | 08 1975 |
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| Description: | Vendors weighing produce for customers from the back of a truck at the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. |
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