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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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AFSCME Executve Board Witnessing Charter Signing

Date: 09 26 1946
Description: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees executive board witnessing the signing of a charter for the Atlantic City, New Jersey convention...
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Madison Labor Day Queen

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Mrs. Evelyn Gotzion of 3222 James Street in Madison, Labor Day Queen, shows her ring to Orla Coleman, president of the Madison Federation of Labor. The rin...
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Construction and General Laborers Union Banquet

Date: 01 12 1959
Description: Group portrait of five attendees at the Construction and General Laborers Local 464 Banquet. Left to right are Bernard Adler, Anthony Caruso, Mike (Michael...
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Nelson Cruikshank and Wilbur J. Cohen

Date: 12 01 1972
Description: The First Distinguished Citizen Award of the National Consumers League was given to Nelson H. Cruikshank, president of the American Federation of Labor (AF...
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Portrait of Nelson Cruickshank

Date: 11 05 1969
Description: Formal portrait of Nelson Cruickshank. In 1969, he became President of the AFL-CIO National Council of Senior Citizens, which began as a coalition Nelson C...
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Portrait of Nelson Cruickshank

Date: 1955
Description: Nelson Cruikshank, emphasizes a point with his left hand as he talks to someone.

Cruikshank worked for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Indus...

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Nelson Cruikshank with Members of the Advisory Council on Social Security

Date: 1955
Description: Members of the Advisory Council on Social Security, which has just completed a review of the social security program and submitted recommendations for impr...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Thomas Kidd

Date: 1906
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Thomas Kidd, wearing eyeglasses and a suit and necktie.
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Executive Council, American Federation of Labor

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Back row, left to right: John B. Lennon, ...
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Group Portrait; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

Date: 1910
Description: Interior group portrait of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 1074 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Three rows of men with a flag ...
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Anthony Earl Speaking to the AFL-CIO

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Description: Governor Anthony S. Earl stands at a podium on a stage. A man sits at a table draped in blue cloth on the left. Behind Earl sit several men in chairs. Some...
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Pullman Porter's Union

Date: 1920
Description: Group portrait of men in the Pullman Porter's Union posing indoors. A group of men are standing around five men sitting around a table.
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Wisconsin State Federation of Labor Meeting

Date: 07 1946
Description: Nine men are sitting around a table in an office, with books and papers in front of them. A caption identifies them as, from left to right: August Alles, P...
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Electric Company Strike Negotiations

Date: 12 30 1966
Description: Three men are sitting together at a table. The man in the middle appears to be writing on a document, while the man on his right is talking to him. Caption...
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3rd Anniversary, Local #174 International Laundry Workers

Date: 09 03 1937
Description: View of a large group of people sitting and standing in a large room. A floral bouquet and a curtain divider are in the foreground.
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Governor John Gilligan at Event

Date: 03 1971
Description: Group portrait of one woman and four men posing together. Caption reads: "NY RDD 3/1971. L to R: Marian Wright Edelman [civil rights activist and Yale boar...
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Johan A. Aalberg

Date: 1908
Description: Waist-up profile portrait of Johan A. ("J.A.") Aalberg, a member of the Typographical Union No. 106, and editor and publisher of The Madison labor news<...
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Johan A. Aalberg

Date: 06 01 1899
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Johan A. ("J.A.") Aalberg, a member of the Typographical Union No. 106, and editor and publisher of The Madison l...
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Iorwith Wilbur Abel

Date: 1968
Description: Portrait of Iorwith Wilbur ("I. W.") Abel, 3rd President of the United Steelworkers of America. This portrait appears to have been taken around 1968, when ...

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