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Workers on Strike

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Description: A worker on strike marches past four women. He is carrying a sign.
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Operator of a Rod Cutting Machine at Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: Elevated view of a worker supervising a rod cutting machine at the Gisholt Machine Company factory.
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Pushing Car Out of Mud

Date: 1935
Description: A United States Resettlement Administration field worker pushing his car out of a muddy patch of road.
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Installing Lindsay Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is wearing a colorful dress. On the right is Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Both are looking at a worker who is installing ...
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Gisholt Movie

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Description: Three men are looking on, one running the movie camera, as a Gisholt worker is filmed working at a machine. The three men behind the camera are wearing sui...
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Man Cleaning Snow from Railroad Tracks

Date: 1978
Description: A railroad worker cleans snow out of a railroad track switch with a broom. He is dressed warmly with a hard hat.
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Old Man at Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: An elderly factory worker is standing in a dusty room holding a large pole at International Harvester's Osborne Works. He is dressed in dark work pants, a ...
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Stutz Motor Car Co. Crankshaft Production on Gisholt Machinery

Date: 06 09 1926
Description: A worker is overseeing the production of crankshafts on Gisholt machinery at a plant for the Stutz Motor Car company. The Gisholt company logo is on the se...
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Impoverished Tannery Worker

Date: 03 02 1965
Description: A man is holding a young girl in his arms. She is holding a bag of Geiser's potato chips. Caption reads: "Poverty faces this father's six daughters, 3 to 1...
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Christmas is Coming

Date: 11 1976
Description: A city worker putting up holiday decorations on a light pole using a telescopic forklift.
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Experimental McCormick Motorized Push Binder

Date: 10 21 1918
Description: Side view of a worker at the controls of an experimental McCormick motorized push binder in front of the McCormick Works factory, Chicago, Illinois. Two me...
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Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards...
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Mike Ubber and Roundy Coughlin with Fun Fund Donation

Date: 12 09 1958
Description: Mike Ubber of 526 Spruce Street, a worker at the Olin Avenue dump, saves a little money from his salvage business each year to donate to "Roundy's Fun Fund...
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Lifting the Lindsay Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay helping lift the Lindsay Street sign to be installed. Phillips is wearing a dress and is in front of Lindsay, who is weari...
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ACA Strikers

Date: 1946
Description: American Communications Association union members picketing while on strike against Western Union. They are carrying signs that read: "Western Union Worker...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker...
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Man Working on International Motor Truck

Date: 1959
Description: A factory worker leans through the windshield of an International motor truck while adjusting one of its parts. The photograph was possibly taken at the co...
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Dam in Wausau

Date: 1913
Description: View down riverbank towards dam of a river around Wausau. Two men and a limber (two-wheeled cart) are near the rivers edge. A man, perhaps a construction w...
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UNICEF Fund Raising

Date: 02 04 1964
Description: UNICEF Chairman Chester Graham (left) shown settling final accounts from a fund raising effort in October. In the center is Leo Lumenschloss, president of ...
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Migrant Worker March

Date: 08 1966
Description: View of a group of migrant workers carrying signs during a march from Wautoma to Madison to promote workers' rights. Some of the people are carrying the im...

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