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Packinghouse Worker Cutting Pig

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Description: A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work".
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Wholesale Meat Market, Washington Street

Date: 1968
Description: A worker examines a hanging haunch of meat in the wholesale meat market on Washington Street, while another worker stands in the background. Also in the ro...
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Factory Worker Standing Among Wooden Barrels

Date: 04 03 1919
Description: Factory worker in soiled clothing standing among wooden barrels in a snow-covered factory yard. The man most likely worked at International Harvester's Osb...
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Stamping Cheeses

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Description: A male worker in a cheese-making factory places a Wisconsin stamp on cheeses.
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Packinghouse Worker

Date: 1942
Description: Portrait of a meat packinghouse worker wearing a striped hat. He has an unlit cigarette in his mouth. The button on his hat reads: "Vote UPWA CIO."
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Railyard Worker on Tractor outside Miller Brewing Co.

Date: 12 26 1935
Description: Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke...
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Buster Bottling Co.

Date: 1938
Description: A McCormick-Deering cooler at the Buster Bottling Company. A worker with a "Drink Orange Crush" hat is moving soda bottles to a crate.
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Cheese Factory

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Description: Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat.
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Man Tastes Wine in Vineyard

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of a man drinking from a glass of wine in a vineyard in France. In the background a vineyard worker is cultivating the field with an Inter...
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Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 15 1946
Description: Cooks prepare food on a large iron stove while a worker stands holding coffee. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car fer...
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The Brewery and the Brewer

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of the brewing kettles at the Pabst Brewery. A brewery worker is walking up the stairs in between the kettles.
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Loading Rail Freight with I-12 Tractor

Date: 06 20 1935
Description: African American workers load barrels of freight onto a Southeastern Express rail car at a Jacksonville rail station. One worker is operating an Internati...
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American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Volunteer worker Mrs. Charles (Elnora) Wirth stands at the counter in the American Red Cross Blood Center canteen, while nurses' aide Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) N...
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Man Drinking Outdoors in Field

Date: 1949
Description: A worker in a hat stands and takes a drink out of a clear glass jug on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption states: "One o...
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Johnson's Bakery

Date: 1941
Description: A male worker wearing a hat and apron at Johnson's Bakery removING a pan from an International reach-in cooler.
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Delivery Truck at Grocery Store

Date: 1977
Description: An International Harvester model 1600 Loadstar is parked at a U Tote M Food Store. The truck is a Lilly Ice Cream delivery vehicle, and a worker is unloadi...
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IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker...
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Milwaukee Picketers Supporting Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A group of picketers supporting the nationwide United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott in front of Kroger Supermarket. Picketers are carrying signs that s...
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Salas Addresses Rally

Date: 1966
Description: Jesus Salas addresses a rally at a podium in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Behind him are marchers who began the march from Wautoma and walked to M...
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Factory Worker with Cart at Osborne Works

Date: 1909
Description: A man in overalls stands with a large cart filled with parts at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind him is a wall...

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