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Photograph

Women Working in Canvas Department of McCormick Works

Date: 07 22 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,...
Photograph

McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 04 26 1939
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor.
Photograph

McCormick Twine Mill Workers

Date: 1938
Description: Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
Photograph

Women at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: Female factory workers handling fabric strips at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Man Next to Green Valley Dairy Sign

Date: 1937
Description: A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike.
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Police Near Cars at Textile Workers Strike

Date: 1937
Description: Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely".
Poster

McCormick-Deering Big Ball Twine

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deerings Big Ball twine. The poster features an illustration of a man using a binder in a farm field, along with insets of...
Photograph

Towel Weaving

Date: 1938
Description: Two men weaving towels at looms.
Photograph

William Pollock

Date: 1937
Description: Portrait of William Pollock, a long-standing union official. Pollock was business agent for United Textile Workers (UTW) Local 25 from 1931-1937, when he b...

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