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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs. |
| Date: | 10 13 1977 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley... |
| Date: | 12 26 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman in polka dot dress is looking on as a service station worker checks the oil in her car. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Worker using a motorized shop cart ("shop mule") to transport parts between buildings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The cart was manufactur... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background. |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Young worker operates a large lever on railroad tracks. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers bel... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries.... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 29 1983 |
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| Description: | A man is using a hose to wash a street. Behind him, a man is driving by in a car. A sign for Doc's Coin Mart is on the building behind the car. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A sign on the roof of a car that says, "Grapes = Poverty" supporting the United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO grape boycott. The car is parked on a street in f... |
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