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| Date: | 09 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mr. E.H. Sohner, General Superintendent of International Harvester's Bettendorf Works, wears a three-piece suit and sits in an office chair to pose for a p... |
| Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
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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: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Farmers and their supporters picket at the National Farm Institute to protest farm prices and their poor economic outlook. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic. |
| Date: | 04 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving the John Deere factory read literature from United Packinghouse of America workers on strike at a nearby plant. Although the location of th... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Booth sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 46 at the Black Hawk County Fair. The booth included a special exhibit that illustrated how both... |
| 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: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the east side of a temporary office building under construction at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. Several cars are par... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Workers from the Tunnicliff Construction Company build a temporary office building at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. On the right a par... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Quad City Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 12 24 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of tanks on the final assembly line inside International Harvester's Tank Arsenal at Bettendorf. The factory was on the site of the company's... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Military tank prepared for shipment at International Harvester's Bettendorf tank arsenal (factory). |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Mississippi River and Horseshoe Island, an unusually shaped island that has water in its middle. |
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| Description: | A small cove featuring a woman fishing from boat. Caption reads: "Fishing, Subula, Iowa." |
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| Description: | A scene of numerous small boats from which individuals are fishing on Spirit Lake. Caption reads: "Fishing Scene, Spirit Lake, Iowa." |
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