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| Date: | 11 11 1937 |
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| Description: | A man shovels dirt from a highway five miles north of Richmond next to an Austin-Western Badger shovel powered by a McCormick-Deering engine. The equipmen... |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown area reconstructed for a movie location set. Several contemporary automobiles are seen in the background. Men are working on on two diff... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | View from across road of picket line of striking employees of the Neuhoff Company who were members of the Amalgamated Meat Packers and Butcher workmen unio... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f... |
| Date: | 04 13 1926 |
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| Description: | International truck parked on a dirt road. Signs on the side of the truck read: "Local & Long Distance Moving," "Piano Movers," and "Storage." In the backg... |
| Date: | 05 19 1963 |
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| Description: | A Mobil gasoline service station sign is in the foreground. Across the street is a blacksmith shop. On the left is a residential home next to the blacksmit... |
| Date: | 01 24 1928 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck marked "City Line Dept. No.4" Other men raise what appears to be a telephone pole along the side of a... |
| Date: | 07 16 1926 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International City of Dekalb street cleaning truck. The truck is parked in front of what appears to be a park. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man wearing a banded hat and riding a mower drawn by two horses. The man is lifting the sickle bar on the mower to avoid a tree stump. A roa... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
| Date: | 09 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Emma Milton (left) of Omaha, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Union local 60, is seen here circulating a petition to save the rent control institute... |
| Date: | 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street of a McCormick agency(?) or dealership(?) building with man visible through a window. The windows are painted with symbols and ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 01 18 1961 |
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| Description: | The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View from across street of various representations of the "Don't Buy Cudahy" boycott campaign outside the Packinghouse Workers headquarters: cartops, women... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| 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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