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Women Metal Fabricators

Date: 1946
Description: Women workers at Moe Brothers.
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Women with Metal Parts at West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: Three women are posing while holding metal parts manufactured at West Pullman Works.
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Women at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory workers Wilma Bowen (left) and an unidentified woman are sitting at a table piled with metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works....
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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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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: View of a woman working in a room at a dairy with a McCormick-Deering Primrose cream separator. There are metal milk cans on shelves behind her.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: View of a woman working in a room at a dairy with a McCormick-Deering Primrose cream separator. There are metal milk cans on shelves behind her.
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Woman with Metal Parts at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: Overhead view of a female factory worker surrounded by stacks of metal parts at West Pullman Works.
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Making Pills

Date: 07 02 1942
Description: Pharmacist Edward Burke uses a small metal machine to help him make capsules of medicine. A woman is sitting at a table in the background.
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U.S. Mint

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Description: A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ...
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Woman Using Fruit Press

Date: 06 1923
Description: A woman using a Dilver (fruit press) to juice fruit into a metal bowl on a tabletop.
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Young Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 07 07 1925
Description: A young woman wearing a dress and a pearl necklace fills a metal pail marked "School" from a cream separator. Additional milk pails are on the floor beside...
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Ideal Curlers

Date: 1921
Description: Exhibit of Ideal Curlers at the Wisconsin State Fair, with a woman demonstrating how they were to be used for long hair. The advertising promises "no metal...
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Employees Drilling or Assembling Metal Parts

Date: 1947
Description: Male and female factory workers use drills or drivers on metal parts at West Pullman Works.
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Polishing Aluminum

Date: 1905
Description: Women polishing aluminum items with belt-driven polishing machinery at Manitowoc Aluminum Novelty Co.
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Woman and Child with Cream Separator

Date: 05 25 1927
Description: A woman is emptying a metal milk can into a cream separator while a girl is standing by watching. They are in a large room with a sink and a cabinet. An el...
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Woman Making Cheese

Date: 1920
Description: A woman wearing an apron and a hairnet standing at a counter while using a hoop strainer to make cheese(?). She is using another metal utensil to press whe...
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Factory Workers at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory workers handle metal parts at West Pullman Works.
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Women at West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: A line of female factory workers seated at a long table piled with metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works.
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West Pullman Works Production Line

Date: 11 24 1942
Description: Female factory workers on a production line at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. The women inspect small metal parts used in war production.
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Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 1923
Description: Mrs. Waggoner steadying a metal pail on the platform of a cream separator as it is collecting cream at International Harvester's demonstration farm. Milk i...

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