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First to Fly — Almost Flying

Date: 1901
Description: Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f...
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Circus Cook Tent

Date: 1942
Description: Cooks preparing food for fellow workers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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Clyde Beatty

Date: 1933
Description: Clyde Beatty, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, sits on a chair outside a circus tent with two young tigers.
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Walter L. Main Circus Personnel

Date: 1904
Description: Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers....
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Circus Clown Sitting on Donkey

Date: 1909
Description: A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent.
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Gisholt Picnic

Date: 08 06 1944
Description: Five speakers at the Gisholt Machine Company picnic, taken at the Blooming Grove carnival grounds. Left to right: Marion "Red" Borland, president of Gishol...
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Men in Tent at Interstate Park

Date: 1936
Description: Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park.
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German Prisoners of War Marching to Trucks

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
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Tents at Prisoner of War Camp

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery.
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Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Beaver

Date: 11 1933
Description: Winter view of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Beaver tents with two men in the background. CCC Company 1604 used Camp Beaver as their base camp...
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10-20 Tractor with Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: A man pulls a circus wagon with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor while two men watch near a tent. The circus is likely the Sells-Floto Circus.
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McCormick-Deering Industrial 10-20 Tractor at Sells Floto Circus

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to move a wagon at the Sells Floto circus. Next to the wagon, a man sits on an elephant, while thr...
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Sells Floto Circus Wagons

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Men attach Sells Floto circus wagons to McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractors in front of a circus tent.
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McCormick-Deering Industrial 10-20 Tractor at Circus

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to pull a wagon at the Sells Floto circus. Children and adults are walking nearby, and a tent and l...
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Soldiers at Attention

Date: 1943
Description: A group of soldiers stand at attention while lines of men walk past. Men are working on a roof and scaffold around a steeple on a building in the backgroun...
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Canadian National Exhibition Ride

Date: 1938
Description: A man stands by to operate an amusement ride called the "Waltzer" at the Canadian National Exhibition. The ride was owned by Ideal Exposition Shows of Pete...
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Workers Building Stalls

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: Four workers amid construction of food stalls out of plywood a day or two before the beginning of the Sound Storm music festival.
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Poor People's March

Date: 1968
Description: Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march.
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IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con...
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A view of men preparing and serving food from the kitchen tent. A sign above the group of men reads, "Keep out of kitchen and don't use kitchen utensils."

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