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Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
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Description: | French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
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Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
Date: | 10 17 1939 |
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Description: | Women working in casing department at the Oscar Mayer & Company meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Avenue. |
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Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
Date: | 12 13 1947 |
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Description: | Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a... |
Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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Description: | Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party. |
Date: | 11 08 1947 |
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Description: | Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation). |
Date: | 04 23 1955 |
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Description: | Presenting an outboard motor door prize at the annual dance of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America. "Howie Roth presented the prizes with the ... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | "The Harmonians" performing at a picnic to raise money for striking Allis-Chalmers workers. |
Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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Description: | Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and... |
Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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Description: | Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea... |
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Description: | Formal studio portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., his wife, and their two sons. McCormick was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923) and her son Stanley R. McCormick, sitting on a wooden bench. Mrs. McCormick was the wife of inventor and in... |
Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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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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Description: | Men and women packing poultry at the Home Packing Company. |
Date: | 01 31 1934 |
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Description: | Miss Helen King modeling a new rubber bathing costume, holding a beach ball. This was the current fashion of the day and was made by U.S. Rubber Co. |
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