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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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Women Balling Twine at Deering Works

Date: 1915
Description: Female workers using machines to ball twine at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The Deering works was located at Fullerton and Clybourn ...
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Women Working in Canvas Department of McCormick Works

Date: 07 22 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,...
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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi displaying fabric samples to a couple sitting on living room furniture at Frautschi's, Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Kessenich's Silk Department

Date: 07 18 1927
Description: Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground.
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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
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Hosiery Workers

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Description: A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.
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Workers Eating at CIO Session

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Description: CIO session over a hedge with workers eating and drinking. Fourth from the left, Cole Danenburg, textile worker.
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McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 04 26 1939
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor.
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McCormick Twine Mill Workers

Date: 1938
Description: Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Women at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: Female factory workers handling fabric strips at McCormick Works.
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Hosiery Workers Laughing at Highlander

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Description: A group of four hosiery workers participating in a skit and wearing accessories made from newspaper, as part of a Highlander Folk School workshop. Joie Wil...
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Alabama Textile Workers Conference

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Description: Image caption reads: "Textile workers conference, Central Alabama, 1939-seated back row Weatherspoon, next Zilphia Horton, next Alabama director, behind po...
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Female Factory Worker

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: A female factory worker balling binder twine with a machine, most likely at International Harvester's McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Women Spooling Twine

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Works twine mill use machines to wind twine onto spools.
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Pioneer Cotton Mill

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Description: Elevated view of women working in the spinning room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle as president. Caption...
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Group of Women Workers

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Description: A group of women work at a loom outdoors. Caption reads: "Drawn Workers, Brownsville, Texas."
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Workers' Unity House

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Description: Women, men and children pose on the front porch of the main house. Men and women occupy the rocking chairs that are lined up on the left along the porch ra...
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Deering Works Canvas Department

Date: 1910
Description: Female and male factory workers operating machines in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works. The canvas was likely used for grai...
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Deering Works Canvas Department

Date: 1910
Description: Female factory workers stand around long tables in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works Canvas Department. Canvas is piled in r...

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