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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station. |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Friday night at the Star Bar and Grill Room, at the intersection of Highways 41 and 43 in Kenosha County. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An unidentified worker, probably in California, loading crates of melons onto a refrigerated railroad car. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari... |
| Date: | 08 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on stri... |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | As the recently-harvested cranberries move past them on a conveyor belt, they are inspected for quality by a work force made up primarily of women. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
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