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Pearl Button Company

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Description: Women working in button factory.
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Woman Cutting Watermelon

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Description: Outdoor view of a woman posing sitting on a mower in front of two boys posing standing, and another woman posing standing on the right.
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Women Finishing Leather

Date: 1914
Description: Women working in the N.R. Allen Sons tannery during World War I. The women are finishing leather. An older man is hauling a cart load of hides at center.
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Women Tire Builders

Date: 04 20 1954
Description: Women work in a row on machinery building tires.
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Woman Posing in Gisholt Darkroom

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Description: A woman is posing in profile as if she is ready to throw a box of dry mounting tissue while standing in the Gisholt darkroom.
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Sun Bathing

Date: 1965
Description: Women sun bathe near an express highway in Milwaukee.
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Swimmers Standing in Lake

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Description: A large group of men, women, and children, wearing swimming attire, standing in a lake. Industrial buildings are in the distance along the shoreline.
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Taking a Break

Date: 1937
Description: Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task.
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Perfume Factory

Date: 07 1945
Description: View from side of women sitting in a row working on an assembly line in a perfume factory.
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Women Workers at Chaney Instruments

Date: 1943
Description: A woman is using a metal rod to handle glass objects on a tray. Caption reads: "Women workers at Chaney Instruments." Another woman in the background is wo...
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Seifert and Lawton Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Seifert and Lawton, power press lithographers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the left is a woman dressed in robes reclining on a chaise longue, ...
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Woman Posing with Horse

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Description: Woman posing with horse with a white-blazed forehead. Buildings are in the background.
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Oscar Mayer Cafeteria

Date: 09 27 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing counter in the background, and women sitting at tables in the foreground.
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Woman Piling Tan Bark

Date: 1918
Description: A group of women employees of the N.R. Allen Tannery posing with a pile of tan bark.
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Woman in Gisholt Darkroom

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Description: A woman is posing as if she is ready to throw a box of dry mounting tissue while standing in the Gisholt darkroom.
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Paper Mills Meeting

Date: 08 1948
Description: Men and women seated in the audience at a paper mills meeting.
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Four Women and Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and...
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Collapse of a Structure

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Description: Men and women walking around piles of coal while examining a collapsed structure in a coal yard.
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Women at Uniroyal Factory

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Description: A group of women work at machines making tires. Men are in the background on the right working on other machines.
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Building Tires

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Description: Workroom in the Uniroyal factory where men and women are building tires.

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