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Gisholt Picnic
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Five speakers at the Gisholt Machine Company picnic, taken at the Blooming Grove carnival grounds. Left to right: Marion "Red" Borland, president of Gisholt Workers' Union; George Johnson, president of the plant; Earl Mullen, Blooming Grove Town Board chairman; Warren Bass, outing chairman; and Norman Bass, former union president.
August 6, 1944
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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