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Office Worker with Cunadex File

Date: 05 27 1948
Description: Office worker using Cunadex file, taken for Cuna Supply Company.
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Female Worker at Harvester Press

Date: 1920
Description: Female worker operating machinery at Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop.
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Female Worker Inspects Parts at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: Female worker inspecting small plastic and metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works.
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Female Factory Worker at West Pullman Works

Date: 1947
Description: A female factory worker machines a part in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works.
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Female Factory Worker

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: A female factory worker balling binder twine with a machine, most likely at International Harvester's McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Algerian Red Crescent Worker

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker is examining a woman's face in a tent as another Algerian woman and her child are looking on.
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Production Line Worker

Date: 1935
Description: A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs.
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Alimony Payment

Date: 09 19 1958
Description: County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband.
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Processing Twine at Twine Mill

Date: 1948
Description: A female factory worker creates balls of twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "This scene shows a battery of balling machin...
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Woman Working at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: Female factory worker at West Pullman Works.
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TERN Worker Exchange Reunion Tour

Date: 10 2003
Description: Group portrait of eight people posing at a table in a restaurant. Caption reads: "TERN [Tennessee Economic Renewal Network] Worker Exchange Reunion Tour: D...
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Red Crescent Worker and Patient

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker inspecting an Algerian woman's eye in a tent. The woman is wearing a shawl and a head scarf. The ten...
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Pneumatic Tube System

Date: 1890
Description: A worker stands next to a pneumatic tube communication system used at the Milwaukee Electric, Railway, and Light Company.
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Woman at Machine at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: A female factory worker operating a machine at West Pullman Works.
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Female Worker Operates Stub Lathe

Date: 10 01 1945
Description: Female worker using a stub lathe to turn, face, groove and "chamfer" chain-tightener sprockets at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The sprocket...
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Rennebohm Pies

Date: 1979
Description: An unidentified Rennebohm Drug Stores, Inc., food service worker prepares to wrap three creme pies.
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Bundling Wood at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: A female factory worker bundles wooden spindles with a machine at the McCormick Works.
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Woman at West Pullman Ball Bearing Plant

Date: 1947
Description: A female factory worker operates a machine in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works.
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Canning Soft Drinks

Date: 1950
Description: A woman production line worker boxes cone-top cans of Tip Top soft drinks as they come off the production line.
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Factory Infirmary

Date: 03 03 1920
Description: Nurse wrapping the injured arm of a worker in the doctor's office of an International Harvester factory, most likely Osborne Works.

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