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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Women and men at work inside an office. The women are using typewriters. A large advertisement for International motor trucks is on one wall. |
| Date: | 08 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre entrance advertising "Joe Cook Rain or Shine." The doorman is standing at the entrance with a child. 209 State Street. |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men standing near an International Model F (or 31) truck operated by Forest Monger Public Transfer and Storage. The truck is parked in front of the Int... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Factory workers looking at safety posters on a bulletin board at the McCormick Works. |
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| Description: | Highlander Chautauqua route traveling group that went to North Carolina and other places during the `40's. Myles and Zilphia Horton, far left. Posters re... |
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| Description: | Eleven motorcyclists wearing sashes are standing in between two news service cars in front of the Milwaukee Journal building. Another row of men are... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Showroom of the Muncie International Company, an International Harvester dealership. The showroom includes a truck, furniture, a desk area, and farm equipm... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing by a cooler with a beer bottle in her hand at Reed's Cafe near a stove and countertop. Original caption states: "McCormick-Deering 6 ca... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is filling a glass from a faucet mounted on a McCormick-Deering 6 can cooler in the Floyd Kaylor Restaurant. Three people are sitting at a counter ... |
| Date: | 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., during his appearance at the United Packinghouse Workers of American Wage-Policy Conference. With him are Russell Lasley (left), ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men at a parts counter in an International Harvester dealership. There is a water cooler, advertising poster, hammer mill and parts bins in the store. ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Showroom of the Long Beach branch house featuring International trucks and parts on the showroom floor. There is an enlarged photograph or mural displayed ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a metal doorway in the East Village with multiple handmade posters and graffiti proclaiming a strike. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Group of several women, probably rural school teachers, assembling wood projects, including benches, while others are learning to tie rope. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of women, probably teachers, using tools to assemble various wooden products including nail boxes, benches and cabinetry(?). Three large posters are ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from stairway of the ornate Otis elevator in the Wisconsin Historical Society building. This elevator was installed as original equipment in ... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | View through window of two men delivering a couch or sofa from Mastercraft Furniture Corporation of Omaha, Nebraska. Inside the room is a couch with tags o... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ... |
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