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Meat Packing

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
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Papermaking

Date: 1953
Description: Elevated interior view of a paper mill with paper making machinery. An employee is standing next to the machinery on the left.
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Vulcan Materials Company Officials

Date: 07 26 1968
Description: Two men are looking at large papers. One of the men has a pipe in his mouth, and the other is wearing eyeglasses and is smiling and pointing to the sheet o...
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Newspaper in the Raw

Date: 08 1963
Description: Elevated view of newspaper pulp wood stacked along the Fox River near the Combined Locks Paper Company. A crane is moving the logs, and workers are standin...
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Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori in Ugetsu Monogatari

Date: 1953
Description: Machiko Kyo, as Lady Wakasa, places an order with Genjuro the potter, played by Masayuki Mori, in Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (1953).
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Robert Rauschenberg Making a Print

Date: 1951
Description: Robert Rauschenberg makes cyanotype art by shining a light over a nude female model who is lying on photosensitive blueprint paper. The print was to be use...
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Patrol Officer

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Description: A patrol officer looks at his compass as he smokes a cigarette.
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Soldiers with Wreckage

Date: 1958
Description: Soldiers of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution stand next to a pile of wreckage in a rural area holding guns.
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin talking over his shoulder to a man while handing a hotel maid a piece of paper which he has perhaps autographed. They are in a hallway of t...
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John L. Lewis in Miner's Hat

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Description: John L. Lewis, in miner's hat, after West Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster.
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Hacking a Path Through a Jungle

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Description: A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette.
Poster

"Fernruf aus Chicago" (Chicago Calling) Film Poster

Date: 1957
Description: German film poster for the American film. Illustrated image of a man's face. Behind him are telephone poles and lines against a blue background.
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Crewman Off-Duty

Date: 06 1942
Description: An off-duty member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta freighter reading a newspaper. The man is resting against the wall of the ship and...
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Female Marine Carpenter

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea...
Poster

Poster for "The Shaughraun"

Date: 1875
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc...
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Menominee County Economic Development

Date: 10 1968
Description: During a visit to Menominee County, Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall and Senator Gaylord Nelson learn about a proposed resort complex.
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Dicky Chapelle at US Military Aid Headquarters

Date: 08 29 1961
Description: Dicky Chapelle at US Military Aid Headquarters. She holds an unlit cigarette and a lighter. She is wearing eyeglasses and smiling at the camera.
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Santiago Veranda at Night

Date: 1959
Description: Veranda in Santiago, Cuba at night with tables and chairs lit by a hanging lamp. The veranda looks down onto city lights and the bay at sunset.
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Soldiers with Lumber and Frame of Building

Date: 07 1942
Description: Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry working among lumber in Panama. One man iswearing a hat and squatting on top of a pile of lumber while holding a hammer...
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Yankie Fogel at Lubavitch House

Date: 04 14 1989
Description: A man in an apron and baker's hat is smiling and holding a pole, with several rolled matzoh on it. On the left are several children wearing paper hats. At ...

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