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Emanuel Adler

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Description: Lithographic caricature of Emanuel D. Adler, a Milwaukee clothing manufacturer. Adler is posing next to a table with cloth stacked on it, in what is identi...
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Ripon Knitting Works

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Ripon Knitting Works, Ripon, Wis." A large, brick, three-story building with windows to the basement in the foundation. It has an arc...
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Portage Hosiery

Date: 07 1966
Description: View across canal towards the back of the Portage Hosiery. Reeds and trees are along the edge of the canal. Red and pink colored liquid is floating on the ...
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Baraboo Woolens Mill

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Description: View across river of Woolens Mill.
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The Massachusetts Cotton Mill Buildings

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Description: A view of the Massachusetts Cotton Mill buildings, including the cloth room and the boiler rooms.
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Willimantic Cotton Mill

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Description: View of Willimantic cotton mills across railroad tracks with three men standing in front. Caption reads: "Willimantic Cotton Mills Corporation, Willimantic...
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Sears and Roebuck Shoe Factory No. 1

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Description: View across water toward the Sears and Roebuck Shoe Factory No. 1. The factory is reflected in the water.
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Island Woolen Mills Billhead

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Description: Billhead of Island Woolen Mills of Baraboo, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of M.J. Drown's Island Woolen Mills building, people loading a horse-drawn...
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Massachusetts Mills

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Description: Slightly elevated view of large machines in the card room of Massachusetts Mill, which produced 1/7 of all textiles in Georgia. Photograph published by Br...
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Pioneer Cotton Mill

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Description: Elevated view of women working in the spinning room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle as president. Caption...
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Pioneer Cotton Mill

Date: 1910
Description: A young boy and a man are shown among the machinery in the carding room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle a...
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Ashley-Bailey Silk Mill

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Description: Four girls gather on the bank of a creek outside Ashley-Bailey Silk Mill.
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Massachusetts Mills

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Description: Rows of large spinning machines can be seen in the card room of Massachusetts Mill, which produced 1/7 of all textiles in Georgia. Caption reads: "No. 3 Sp...
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American Thread Company

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Description: Mill Number Three of the American Thread Company. The English Sewing Company purchased the Willimantic Linen Company England mills in 1898 and formed the A...
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American Thread Company

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Description: Mill Number Four of the American Thread Company. The English Sewing Company purchased the Willimantic Linen Company England mills in 1898 and formed the Am...
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F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Company of Milwaukee, manufacturers of and dealers in footwear, with an elevated, three-quarter view of the Mayer co...
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Clothing Mill Sewing Room

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Description: About twenty women sit at tables sewing on sewing machines in the sewing room of the Chippewa Woolen Mill.
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Chippewa Shoe Mfg. Co.

Date: 1919
Description: Slightly elevated view toward the Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company building, Bay Street & River Street, looking north. Caption reads: "Chippewa Shoe Mfg...
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American Thread Company

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Description: Mill Number Two of the American Thread Company. The English Sewing Company purchased the Willimantic Linen Company England mills in 1898 and formed the Ame...
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Women Learning Factory Work

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Description: View of young women learning to operate machines in a shirt and overall factory.

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