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Tuskegee Institute Machine Shop

Date: 1902
Description: The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop.
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Smelter Workers Union Member

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Description: A Smelter Workers Union member, wearing a headlamp.
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Textile Workers Strike

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Description: Textile workers strike in Alabama. Signs in back read, "This Company Is Unfair To The Laboring Class + It Is Your Fight As Well As Ours. Don't Scab. Dal...
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Alabama Textile Workers Conference

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Description: Image caption reads: "Textile workers conference, Central Alabama, 1939-seated back row Weatherspoon, next Zilphia Horton, next Alabama director, behind po...
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Quarry

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Description: A view of a marble quarry in Sylacauga, "The Marble City," which is constructed on a solid deposit of the hardest, whitest marble in the world. The bed is ...
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Blast Furnace

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Description: The industrial city of Ensley, Alabama constructed four 200-ton blast furnaces which were in operation by April, 1889, the largest such grouping in the wor...
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Wilson Dam

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Description: Elevated view of Wilson Dam under construction, looking south. Three large cranes can be seen on the dam over the Tennessee River. Caption reads: "Wilson D...
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Wilson Dam

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Description: Elevated view of Wilson Dam under construction. Three large cranes are on the dam over the Tennessee River.
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Wilson Dam

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Description: Elevated view of Wilson Dam under construction. Three large cranes are on the dam over the Tennessee River.
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Hot Pot Engine

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Description: View of a work engine and crew at a steel mill. Published by Arbiter Bros.

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