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Loading Milk Cans

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: A construction site with a truck manufactured by Winther Motor and Truck Company. A forty foot boom is mounted on the truck. Workers are positioning a stee...
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Strikers' Thanksgiving

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Description: Distribution of holiday turkeys and spam to striking members of the UPWA union. The truck was sent by the local in neighboring Austin where Spam was produc...
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente...
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Reliance Motor Truck Factory

Date: 1919
Description: Interior of the Reliance Motor Truck Company in Appleton, in which the absence of assembly line construction is notable.
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First Four-Wheel Drive

Date: 1909
Description: Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t...
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Unloading Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Dumping a truckload of freshly harvested cranberries.
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Green Pea Combine

Date: 1969
Description: A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm.
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Boring Mill Table

Date: 02 14 1961
Description: Two men crouch atop of the large gear, while another stands at the side overseeing the lift. This gear was purchased and used by the Ladish Company of Cuda...
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Split Ring Gear

Date: 09 15 1966
Description: Falk caption reads, "Photos of ring gear to be displayed at the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE) show in Cleveland, Ohio, September 26th thro...
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Pet Milk Evaporated Milk Supply

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Description: Greene County Farmers Union Milk Producers Coop, using a fork lift to move a supply of Pet Milk Company evaporated milk.
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Filling Up the Historymobile

Date: 04 01 1957
Description: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Historymobile at the Clark Service Station, 2631 University Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Tschudy (Jake and Irene),...
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Memorial Library under Construction

Date: 1950
Description: Library under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the background is the State Historical Society, and Science Hall is in the upp...
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MEC&MC Gantry Crane Constructing the L.I.R.R.

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane involved with the construction of the Long Island Railroad. There is a sign on the crane that...
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Golden Guernsey Dairy Delivery Truck

Date: 1938
Description: A milkman stands inside a Golden Guernsey Dairy delivery truck loading bottles into a carrier. The truck is parked at a curb and a house is in the backgrou...
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Madison Strikers

Date: 10 1975
Description: Picket line of Madison Local 444 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers union on strike against the Packerland Packing Co.
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Union Solidarity

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Description: In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ...
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Lettuce Strike Picket Line

Date: 01 18 1961
Description: The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike.
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IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker...
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Globe Company Picket Line

Date: 09 1945
Description: View from road of picket line of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 284 at the Globe company plant.

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