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| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Female workers using machines to ball twine at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The Deering works was located at Fullerton and Clybourn ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,... |
| Date: | 07 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 03 28 1927 |
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| Description: | Kessenich's linen department. A clock is on the wall above the entrance, and a water fountain is on the wall on the left.. |
| Date: | 03 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a woolen mill with an advertisement sign for Patton's Sun Proof-Paints in the front. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man operates a balling machine while another handles spools of binder twine. The men may have been working at the McCormick twine mill in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ... |
| Date: | 04 26 1939 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 04 16 1937 |
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| Description: | A man at McCormick Works Twine Mill stands in between various rows of machinery to inspect a ball of twine. |
| Date: | 03 1938 |
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| Description: | An International Model D-30 truck loaded with twine is parked near a body of water in Uppsala, Sweden. A large ship is in the background. The truck was own... |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Two labels from Ripon Knitting Works, Ripon, Wisconsin. The label states, "LEATHER and KNIT SPORTSWEAR SINCE 1880." |
| Date: | 05 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Bundles of twine (fibre) piled on hanging scales are weighed at International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory. |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men use a lift to stack bales of bound fiber in a storage area, possibly at the McCormick Works twine mill. The company used sisal and hemp fiber to ... |
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