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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ... |
| Date: | 11 27 1967 |
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| Description: | A machinist running a punch press at Res Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of workers grinding fertilizer with a power hammer mill. Original captions reads: "The Fish Meal Company of Fernandina, Florida, uses this Interna... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
| Date: | 03 13 1972 |
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| Description: | Original Falk caption reads, "Largest bevel gears manufactured by Falk to date. This photograph was taken in the Heat Treat Department." Male employees in ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1978 |
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| Description: | Anotha Burt, a Falk employee, inspects a large walk gear. This particular gear was purchased by Page Engineering. Original Falk caption reads, "Large walk ... |
| Date: | 04 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Four women sewing a 'sleeping garment' at the Blessed Martin House, 746 West Washington Avenue, an interracial and interfaith center sponsored by Madison C... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers work on an assembly line at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect sisal fiber, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. The fibers were stacked in piles and then weighed on a floor scale. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers packing bottles (possibly of soda) near a McCormick-Deering ten-can cooler at Parmlee Bottling Works. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of a female employee, in a white, nurse-like uniform, white nursing cap labeled "Smucker's" and white nursing shoes, operating a label... |
| Date: | 05 12 1939 |
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| Description: | Workers gather around an International Harvester Model 1-B hammer mill powered by an International Model 200 power unit at the Fish Uleal Company. The mac... |
| Date: | 05 19 1938 |
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| Description: | A man uses a Hebard shop mule owned by White Way Laundry to haul three-wheeled bins of bagged laundry. The shop mule, powered by an International P-12 powe... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A worker operates a machine powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Rosedale Gin. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers tend machinery powered by an International PD-80 power unit at the Wilmot Gin Company. |
| Date: | 12 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers tend machines inside the Long Short Gin. The machinery was powered by an International PD-80 power unit. |
| Date: | 11 24 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers on a production line at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. The women inspect small metal parts used in war production. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of group of men working on and around a flat bed wagon loaded with a large piece of machinery. They are outside a large brick building. |
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