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| Description: | Portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), wife of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), done by W. Kurtz. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs. |
| Date: | 10 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Pinafore-clad Carol Cochems, holding a pencil, with ringlets and a bow in her hair, reads in deep concentration at a desk-chair invented by H.M. Wood. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph with a mosaic of a woman w... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees. |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | Khaki-covered Bibles being made by the American Bible Society for American fighters during World War I. The goal was one million testaments. All the worker... |
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| Description: | Four girls stand on a porch near the back door of a stone building. All four girls wear their hair in pigtails. Another girl is standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Aileen Baumgardner of Merrillville, Indiana, is looking over the shoulder of Rusty Brda of Schiller Park, Illinois, as she is polishing the chrome discs on... |
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| Description: | View of young women learning to operate machines in a shirt and overall factory. |
| Date: | 01 16 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin... |
| Date: | 10 15 1966 |
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| Description: | Instructor George Finco (right) teaches skill and safety to students Michael Edler (left) and Jeff Zinuticz in the Custer High School foundry. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Rusty Brda of Schiller Park, Illinois (left) and Aileen Baumgardner of Merrillville, Indiana, "Cameo Girl" saleswomen for Bestline Incorporated, carrying B... |
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| Description: | Women assemble tires at the Uniroyal plant. Men are also working in the background. |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Theresa Meyer and Alice Lee cutting and splicing stock in the bead department. |
| Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Tire builder Arnold Brandt rolls the tread onto a heavy service truck tire. |
| Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Rode LeDue builds an 8.25/20 pocket for use in a heavy service tire. |
| Date: | 04 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Women work in a row on machinery building tires. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, with a sidebar image of an American Indian woman with brai... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | A student using an engine lathe in an auto mechanics class at Indianhead Technical Institute. He is wearing safety glasses, jeans and an Ashland wrestling ... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Vocational students at James Williams Junior High School work on a silkscreen project. The screens are laying on the work bench. More students, tables and ... |
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