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Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) delegates at 1957 convention with Herbert Hill. From left to right are Ollie Webb, Richard Miller, Charles Ha... |
Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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Description: | TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles... |
Date: | 09 19 1958 |
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Description: | County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband. |
Date: | 01 23 1958 |
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Description: | Female telephone switchboard operator at work. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A woman production line worker boxes cone-top cans of Tip Top soft drinks as they come off the production line. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter. |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | A motor scooter in an advertisement with female model sitting on a Cushman Road King motor scooter. |
Date: | 05 21 1956 |
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Description: | Ray-O-Vac workers from the Battery Workers' Union and Machinists' Union picketing for higher wages, better working conditions, and better pension plan. Ant... |
Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc... |
Date: | 07 31 1950 |
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Description: | A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising. |
Date: | 11 05 1958 |
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Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle sits and drinks coffee with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria. |
Date: | 09 27 1956 |
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Description: | Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years. |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees. |
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