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| Date: | 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather. |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co.... |
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| Description: | Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O... |
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| Description: | Rubber Workers during a workshop at the Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton on far left. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike. |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Army recruiting office. The picture was probably taken by a member of the staff of the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam, which wa... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 167 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed by the Swift Company in South St. Paul signing up for strike duty. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Five foundry workers at Fairbanks, Morse & Company, taking a break just outside the door of the building. Workers names: Solomon Deberry, Curtis Barber, tw... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Group of people, probably including NAACP Youth Council members, picketing outside Marc's Big Boy restaurant. Lloyd Barbee is second from the left. |
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| Description: | Left side view of Chicago,Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 901, class J2, built by Borrks Locomotive Works in 1887. Engineer Jake Rhyner ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Cream City Sash & Door Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Manufacturers of Glazed Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings & Interior Work," with fo... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Kreme-O-Maltz, Light Hop Flavor, Malt Syrup." Distributed by the Oshkosh Maltz Produ... |
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| Description: | Union Refrigerator Transit Company officials pose in front of a railroad car in the snow. Governor Emmanuel Philipp is in the center of the line. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two men holding protest signs are walking down a sidewalk past a white police officer who is holding a bullhorn at a Greenwood Freedom Day. In the backgrou... |
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