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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees leaving International Harvester's Bettendorf Works at the end of their work day. A sign in the background reads "Produce for Victory." |
| Date: | 06 10 1924 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer W.E. Tomlinson examines what appears to be a machine manual in a repair shop or dealership while another man looks on. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two men standing on the back of an International truck used by the Zimmerman Steel Company. Text on the truck reads: "Zimmerman Steel Company, Bittendorf, ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works stand on wooden platforms at individual stations to weld parts for the "M-5 high sp... |
| Date: | 09 08 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of female factory workers at International Harvester's Bettendorf Works assembling the instrument panels for "M-5 high speed tractors" [crawler]. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | The summer labor institute sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. The delegates are probably all representatives of District 3. Russell L... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men stand in a factory, possibly the Bettendorf Tank Arsenal, used during World War II to repair tanks for the United States military. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of a uniformed man standing near the back of an International D-30 truck owned by Hill's Dry Goods Company parked in a residential area. T... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind ... |
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