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Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
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Making Pills

Date: 07 02 1942
Description: Pharmacist Edward Burke uses a small metal machine to help him make capsules of medicine. A woman is sitting at a table in the background.
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Hamilton Works Core Room

Date: 1910
Description: Female employees working in the core room of International Harvester's Hamilton Works, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The photograph was marked by company staf...
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Female Employees Operating Machines at IHC's Chatham Works

Date: 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of female workers operating machines at International Harvester's Chatham Works in Ontario, Canada. The factory was originally owned...
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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 Ball Twine at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 04 26 1939
Description: Women workers operating twine balling machines at International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill. The twine mill was part of the McCormick Works. The McCor...
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Women Operate Canvas Machines at McCormick Works

Date: 07 22 1936
Description: Female workers operating machines to insert wooden slats into binder canvas at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by ...
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Woman in War Work Window Display

Date: 1944
Description: Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce...
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Oscar Mayer Casing Workers

Date: 10 17 1939
Description: Group portrait of female workers in the casing department of Oscar Mayer & Company, located at 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...
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Woman and Hemp Stalk Crusher

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: A woman is feeding hemp stalks into a crusher for rope production during World War II.
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Women Processing Hemp Fibers

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II.
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Women Combing Hemp Fibers

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Lula Lawrence, lsft, and Esther Gunderson combing hemp fibers. In the background two women are sorting hemp fiber bundles for rope and cordage during Worl...
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Sausage Making

Date: 1944
Description: Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
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Pie Maker

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Description: Fruit pies speed past Morton assembly line worker Ethel McCollough on their way to the machine in which they will be boxed for freezing.
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Shipping Carrots

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market.
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Woman Rubber Worker

Date: 01 12 1949
Description: Isabel Olson, an employee of the United Rubber Company in Eau Claire, examining fabric for a pocket in a heavy service tire. Although most women who joine...
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War Production at Auburn Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Auburn Works uses a machine to make engine an cowling for a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo plane while two ...
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Female Employees at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1921
Description: Female factory workers standing at work stations at Milwaukee Works. The women are likely engaged in the manufacture of cream separators.
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Woman Inspecting a Gear Reducer

Date: 1978
Description: Lynnette Hartwig, a Falk employee, inspects a gear. This unit was later purchased by the Wisconsin Bearing Company. Original Falk caption reads: "Illustrat...

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