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Woman at Work

Date: 03 24 1969
Description: Young woman at work designing a magazine cover.
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Four Women Sewing

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Description: A group of four women sewing in a business setting.
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Female Employees at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1921
Description: Female factory workers standing at work stations at Milwaukee Works. The women are likely engaged in the manufacture of cream separators.
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Operators

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Female telephone operators busy at work.
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Work Relief Sewing Project

Date: 01 11 1935
Description: Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families....
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Wisconsin State Employment Service Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Interior of the Milwaukee office of the Wisconsin State Employment Service, with applicants for work.
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Two Women Model Clothing

Date: 10 08 1963
Description: Two women model clothing. The woman on the left is wearing a wedding dress from 1946, and the other woman is wearing a Mount Mary gym suit.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Production Line Worker

Date: 1935
Description: A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs.
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Checking the Oil

Date: 1956
Description: Woman in polka dot dress is looking on as a service station worker checks the oil in her car.
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Employee Working on a Computer

Date: 08 28 1984
Description: Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment.
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Hairstylist

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Description: A hairstylist applying hair color to a woman's hair.
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Women Machining Cream Separator Parts at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1918
Description: Female factory workers machining parts for cream separators and International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. An original caption identifies them as "Milwauke...
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Studio of Panorama Artist

Date: 1900
Description: Friedrich Wilhelm Heine at work in his studio. An unidentified woman paints at an easel. Many paintings and sketches surround them. Heine was the Superviso...
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Franklin Roosevelt Visiting the Allis Chalmers Plant

Date: 09 19 1942
Description: Presidential Tour - Series IV. Official party views women at work in Allis Chalmers factory.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is looking through rear wind...

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Dorothy Roshak Zmuda

Date: 12 15 1944
Description: Dorothy Roshak Zmuda at work in the advertising department of Allis-Chalmers.
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Disease Immunization, 5th and Hadley

Date: 02 15 1935
Description: A man and a woman administer immunization shots to a line of children.
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Woman Working at Multiple Drill at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory worker Doris Zwieg uses a multiple drill for war production at International Harvester Company's Milwaukee Works. She wears a hat embroidered with ...
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Woman Milking Cow

Date: 1939
Description: Mrs. Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand.
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Men at Employment Office

Date: 1912
Description: View from behind the counter of men lined up in the Second Office of the State Employment Agency. Three people in the foreground are providing assistance, ...

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