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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs. |
| Date: | 09 26 1933 |
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| Description: | A.H. Hubbell Company workers build a "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining" brick wall around a boiler in the engine room at Arcade Manufacturing C... |
| Date: | 08 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Men unloading Frigidaire refrigerators from New York Central/Cincinnati Northern railroad box car to truck. The delivery is for the Gay Brothers Apartments... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men are operating a thresher and a stationary engine near a barn. |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill. |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Men and women employed by Malleable Iron Range Co. making artillery shells to be used in the Korean War. |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Factory worker holding an artillery shell manufactured at Malleable Iron Range Co. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Three photographs showing various stages of engine assembly and placement to the main frame. Men are seen at work at these various stages. Top image captio... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men working on a Works Progress Administration project. Three men are standing and holding a board with a chain attached to it n... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man using a McCormick Deering hoist. A group of men are manually setting a lamppost or other object onto a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | A steel worker from Milwaukee attaches a rope to be used to pull an antenna into place on a tower on top of the new City-County Building. The antenna is fo... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A cobbler repairing shoes. He is standing at a counter with the tools of his trade and a shelf of shoes and boots. He is wearing a long apron. The shop is ... |
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