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Hosiery Logo
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An oval-shaped, Art Deco style, blue and white logo depicting a woman in a short dress holding a stocking over her head. Buildings, the sun, and waves are behind her. The text reads: "Wear Union made Hosiery." There is an IPEU union bug at lower right.
circa 1936
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
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W011O65
WHi 125325
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Berkshire Strike — Pickets and Police on Horses
1936
View of Berkshire Knitting Mills campus looking northwest from the intersection of Reading Ave. and 8th Ave. Four police officers on horseback watch picketers cross 8th Ave.
Berkshire Strike--Pickets with Tear Gas
1936
View of Berkshire Knitting Mills buildings 201 (center) and 202 (right), looking northeast from the intersection of Reading Ave. and 8th Ave. There is a crowd of strikers around the buildings, bein...
Hosiery Union Men's Choral Group
January 1944
A group of men encircle a lightpost. A caption identifies them as "Hosiery Union housing project men's choral group."
Gisholt Commercial Art
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Gisholt Commercial Art
Illustration art of a full-length view of a female factory worker, waving her right hand as she steps toward the viewer. She is wearing belted coveralls over a white shirt. Her photographic name ba...
Mary Griggs Burke
circa 1930-1939
Mary Griggs Burke as a young woman, sitting outdoors at Forest Lodge smiling and holding a dachshund dog.
