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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 Assembling Light Sockets

Date: 07 06 1942
Description: Four women assembling light sockets.
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Women Supervisor's Conference

Date: 1943
Description: Female factory supervisors watch a man demonstrating a machine operation at the Women Supervisors' Conference held at International Harvester's West Pullma...
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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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Women Metal Fabricators

Date: 1946
Description: Women workers at Moe Brothers.
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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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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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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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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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Native Americans in front of House

Date: 1940
Description: Two Native American women in front of a small house doing yard or house work.
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Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.
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Woman Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 21 1997
Description: A woman wearing a jacket and hairnet sorts cranberries on a conveyor belt at the Walker Cranberry Company.
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Woman Working at Gisholt Plant

Date: 1944
Description: A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue.
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General Laboratories Mailing and Filing Room

Date: 08 16 1929
Description: Women work at various work stations in the General Laboratories mailing and filing room, located at 124 South Dickinson Street.
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Women Sorting Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: A row of women sort cranberries on a conveyor belt at the Walker Cranberry Company. They are wearing jackets and hairnets. The woman in the foreground is w...
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Four Lakes Cleaners Interior

Date: 01 28 1947
Description: Interior of Four Lakes Cleaners, 612 South Park Street, with work room showing two women pressing clothes, and racks of clean clothes.
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Women Sorting Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: Many women sort cranberries on conveyor belts at the Walker Cranberry Company. All are wearing jackets and many wear hairnets.
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Women Sorting Cranberries

Date: 10 21 1997
Description: Many women sorting cranberries on several conveyor belts at the Walker Cranberry Company. They are wearing jackets and hair nets.
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Women Processing Hemp Fibers

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II.
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Memorial Union Kitchen

Date: 10 08 1947
Description: Three unidentified women in the kitchen at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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