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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Children working in a vegetable cannery as the supervisor with pipe in his mouth stands over them. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Male Papuan carriers help members of the 32nd Division construct a road through the jungle of New Guinea. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of Civilian Conservation Corps workers standing at a table saw. One man, probably a supervisor, wears a hat and tie. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of correctional inmates work in a trench, while a man with a firearm watches from above. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Boy dressed in work clothes and covered with soot from working in a mine. He wears a hat with a rudimentary lantern on top. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b... |
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