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TWUA Strike Meeting

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles...
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Adequate Wiring Bureau Meeting

Date: 04 10 1948
Description: Group portrait of men attending an informational meeting of the Wisconsin Power & Light Company, Central Wisconsin Adequate Wiring Bureau at the Loraine Ho...
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Voting at AFL Convention

Date: 1954
Description: Raising their right hands, an unidentified group of union members voting at the American Federation of Labor (AFL) convention.
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AMCBWNA Reps at CLUW Convention

Date: 1974
Description: Delegates from the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen union at the convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
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Standard Oil Farm Meeting

Date: 08 04 1948
Description: View of speakers platform from the back of the room at a Standard Oil Co. farm meeting.
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Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
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...
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Community Chest (Red Feather) Campaign

Date: 10 17 1949
Description: Gertrude Adams (right), chairman of the women's division of the Community Chest campaign, confers with her associate chairman, Mary Lobb, about final plans...
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CIO Convention

Date: 11 21 1950
Description: Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel.
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First AFL-CIO Convention

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of the first national convention after the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. at Wage Policy Conference

Date: 10 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr., during his appearance at the United Packinghouse Workers of American Wage-Policy Conference. With him are Russell Lasley (left), ...
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Women's Activities Delegates

Date: 1953
Description: Delegates to the first Women's Activities Conference sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign behind the three women concerns the im...
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Red Skelton on International Harvester Stage

Date: 1959
Description: Red Skelton entertains an audience while onstage at the convention of American Trucking Associations. The International Harvester logo is displayed on the ...
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Workers Discuss Strategy after Walkout

Date: 1969
Description: Jorge Vasquez (wearing beret) discusses strategy with Fall River Canning Company workers after walkout. Children, youth and adults stand clustered in a cir...
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Obey and the Joint Economic Committee

Date: 02 07 1985
Description: David R. Obey of Wisconsin, chair of the Joint Economic Committee. Opposite him, (in the foreground) is Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, testifying ...
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State Panel in Waushara County Electric Cooperative Building

Date: 08 15 1966
Description: A panel of Wisconsin state officials at Waushara County Electric Cooperative building meeting with Oberos Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm workers unio...
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Madison Restaurant Association Open House

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: Vivian Soule (center), of Rt. 3 in Madison, was chosen as Wisconsin's most outstanding restaurant hostess at an open house held by the Madison Association....
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We Saw You . . . Honoring Six Farmers

Date: 11 17 1958
Description: The Uptown Kiwanis Club honored six outstanding Dane County farmers at its recent recognition meeting during National Farm-City Week. Shown (left to right)...
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Facing the Russians

Date: 03 1985
Description: Arms control talks between visiting Soviets and American legislators. Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey sat in on the talks with Congressman Tom Downey, ...
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Theater Men and Plaque

Date: 05 02 1961
Description: Three men examining a plaque. The original caption states: "F.J. Williams, left, Portage theater owner and longtime Wisconsin showman, receives a plaque co...
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National Farmers Organization Meeting

Date: 09 26 1962
Description: Roland Waters, Elk Mound, NFO National Director, standing onstage while addressing an overflow crowd of farmers and their wives at the Oregon High School a...

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