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Farmall F-12 with Potato Digger

Date: 1934
Description: L.R. Love sits behind the wheel of a Farmall F-12 tractor pulling a #10 one-row potato digger while four other men stand around him. The men are likely emp...
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Zilphia Horton Playing Her Accordion

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Description: Zilphia Horton playing her accordion at a meeting of the Food and Tobacco Workers Union. On stage behind her is a "Farmers Union" sign with a graphic logo.
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Democratic Phone Bank

Date: 11 1960
Description: A volunteer phone bank of member of the United Packinghouse Workers locals 88 and 21: Ruby Espionga, Gayle Hill, Beatrice Holland, and Ann Wilson.
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Two Men near Farmall Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Two men, probably Gleb Ilyin (left) and C.O. Johnson, standing near a Farmall M tractor, some cows and a stack of hay. Ilyin is described in an original ca...
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Shop at Bush-Ellis Implement Company

Date: 1944
Description: Mechanics working in a shop at the Bush-Ellis Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. At the time of the photo, workers were in the proce...
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Offices and Parts Counter at Bush-Ellis Implement Company

Date: 1944
Description: Three men working in offices at the Bush-Ellis Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. On the right is a service counter, and on the left...
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Offices of H.W. Moore Equipment Company

Date: 1945
Description: John C. Moore (right) standing at the cashier counter in the offices of H.W. Moore Equipment Company, an International Harvester power equipment dealership...
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John C. Moore and Louise Strauss

Date: 1945
Description: John C. Moore and Louise Strauss sitting at a desk at H.W. Moore Co., an International power equipment dealership. Mr. Moore was president of the company a...
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Harvesting Corn

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Description: Three men in a cornfield, mid-harvest. One of the men is seated on a horse-drawn harvester. "McCormick Chicago" (rest of text illegible) can be read on the...
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Stacking Hay

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Description: Several agricultural workers operating horse-driven machinery to stack hay. Two men stand on a large pile of hay. Caption reads: "A Hay Ranch In Colorado."
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Stacking Hay

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Description: Several agricultural workers operating horse-driven machinery to stack hay. Two men stand on a large pile of hay. Caption reads: "A Hay Ranch In Colorado."
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McCormick Binder in Barley Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man using a McCormick grain binder to work in a field of barley on the farm of the Honorable William Dickens.
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Men with Big 4 Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are leading horses in pulling McCormick Big 4 mowers near a brick farmhouse. A girl wearing a dress and hat is sitting on a horse in the foreground...
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Boy Practicing Cattle Roping

Date: 1962
Description: 6-year-old Kirk Hanna uses a lasso to practice cattle roping on a pair of bull horns affixed to a log in a barnyard. A horse is tied to a fence on the righ...
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Street Scene

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Description: View down a city street from a colonnaded walkway. Automobiles park outside a store advertising drugs and soda, Wade Bros. Land Company, and Henry C. Roge...
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International 4200 Truck at Truck Stop

Date: 1972
Description: Color photograph of a man filling an International Transtar 4200 truck with gasoline at a truck stop. The signs on the trailer of the truck read: "King Soo...
Book or Pamphlet

The Pinkerton Labor Spy

Date: 1907
Description: Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field, with mountains in the distance. On the left is a man coming down the field driving a horse-drawn binder. A man on the right appears to b...
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Seton Rochwite

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Description: Seton Rochwite, designer of the Stereo-Realist Camera, with his handmade forerunners of the Realist. Display at the Photographic Society of America Convent...

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