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Woman at Work

Date: 03 24 1969
Description: Young woman at work designing a magazine cover.
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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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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 1969
Description: Women work along an assembly line grading and sorting cranberries.
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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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Operators

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Female telephone operators busy at work.
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Women Sewing for Civil Works Administration Project

Date: 1934
Description: A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933...
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Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
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Cranberry Quality Control

Date: 10 1969
Description: As the recently-harvested cranberries move past them on a conveyor belt, they are inspected for quality by a work force made up primarily of women.
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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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Women War Workers

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Women employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company performing an early layup operation, a part of the process whereby the company made ...
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Milwaukee Sewing Project

Date: 01 1935
Description: Sewing project for Milwaukee County women to make and repair clothing for relief families.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Grading and Sorting Cranberries

Date: 1970
Description: Cranberries being loaded onto a conveyor belt. Women are sorting cranberries as they move along the belt.
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Parker Pen Screw Machine Department

Date: 1925
Description: Workers in the Parker Pen Screw Machine Department.
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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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War Worker

Date: 1918
Description: An unidentified woman who worked at the Four Wheel Drive factory in Clintonville assembling trucks during World War I. She is wearing a special uniform fo...
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Interior of Wisconsin State Employment Service

Date: 1912
Description: Interior of an office of the Wisconsin State Employment Service, with applicants for work, and officials.
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Inspecting Peas

Date: 1975
Description: Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari...
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Checking Corn Kernels

Date: 1969
Description: Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts.
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust.

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