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Kissel War Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr...
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Migrant Barracks

Date: 1969
Description: Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke...
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Hartford Canning Company

Date: 1969
Description: Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa...
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Kissel Truck

Date: 1919
Description: Kissel truck owned by Washington County entering a gravel pit.
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La Voz Headlines

Date: 09 1969
Description: Piles of "La Voz Mexicana" (The Mexican Voice) newspapers at the Wautoma office of Obreros Unidos (United Workers). The headline says, "Hartford Contract i...
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Kissel Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Washington County highway worker filling a Kissel-built truck with gravel and crushed rock.
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Spring-Time Project

Date: 04 11 1985
Description: Five men are working on a highway, placing tar and covering it with tissue. A line of cars are passing in the opposite lane. A field and farm buildings are...
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Highway Mowing with International A Tractor

Date: 1946
Description: Man mows grass with an International A tractor and mower. Caution flags are mounted on the tractor. Original caption reads: "International A used with an I...
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Construction Work

Date: 06 1984
Description: "Reconstruction work is being done on Hwy 28, between Kewaskum and Hwy 41. This view is from the intersection of 28 and 41, looking due east."
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Hartford Store Poll Watchers

Date: 1967
Description: Two men sitting in front of Hartford Store cucumber receiving station watch over polls on union election day. The ballot box is on the left side of the tab...

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