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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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Construction Worker on a Lunch Break

Date: 1969
Description: A construction worker sits on a wooden beam near a fence and eats his lunch. Behind him is the construction site with debris.
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Goldye Mohr standing at the bedside of Sidney Hargrove, age 2.
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Leslie Werner Repair Shop

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Description: Interior of the Leslie Werner Repair Shop. A worker is repairing a violin and there are many bicycle rims and parts in view.
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Sid Boyum Painting a Mural

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Description: Sid Boyum painting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural of a toy shop. The 1940 census lists Sid as an artist/government worker for the Toy Loan Pro...
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Bancroft Union Softball Game

Date: 1967
Description: Obreros Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm worker union members at a Bancroft baseball game. Children sit on top of the dugout to watch. Adult men are st...
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Children at Waushara Labor Camp

Date: 1967
Description: A group of children of migrant worker families playing a ball game in a circle with an adult who has his back to the camera at a Waushara County Labor Camp...
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Chinese Sporting Goods Factory

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Description: Propaganda photograph received from China Features in Peking by the Southern Patriot newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky. The photograph illustrat...
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Labor Day Parade

Date: 09 05 1949
Description: Elevated view of Madison's Labor Day parade, showing the electrical workers' unit, the largest unit in the parade, and the Brotherhood of Electrical Worker...
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Mr. and Mrs. Buswell

Date: 08 12 1914
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Buswell are in a rowboat on Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Buswell."
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Building Farmer-Labor Solidarity

Date: 1947
Description: Booth sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 46 at the Black Hawk County Fair. The booth included a special exhibit that illustrated how both...
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Refugees in a Food Warehouse at a D.P. Camp

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Description: Refugees stand behind supplies in a food warehouse at a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Officials

Date: 07 23 1949
Description: Soap Box Derby officials and judges for the 1949 derby are pictured in a group portrait. Left to right, they are John Hubbins, cashier of the American Exch...
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Communal Shower for Migrant Workers

Date: 1969
Description: A boy wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt and dark pants is barefoot and standing to the left of a communal shower hut for migrant farm workers in a Waut...
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Central Wisconsin Labor Camp

Date: 1967
Description: A central Wisconsin labor camp consisting of a row of wooden framed building with asphalt siding which housed migrant laborers. At the center, three childr...
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Refugees Work as Clerks in a D.P. Camp Office

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Description: Three male refugees working as clerks in the office of a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors...
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Display for Madison Toy Loan

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Description: Display for the Madison Toy Loan program, set up in the corner of an industrial building. Signs for the display read: "Madison Toy Loan takes toys, like th...
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Gladys Harvey, as a Golf Teacher

Date: 1905
Description: Gladys Harvey, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a golfer. Part of a yearbook created by classmate Albert Hansen, based on a c...
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Green Bay Food Company Camp

Date: 1966
Description: Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company.

In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr...

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