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Police officers maintain order among mourners lined up outside the 26th Street pier morgue, waiting to identify victims of the Triangle fire.
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Midvale Company employee Frank Caesario Jr. using spectroscope to observe steel color and gauge temperature, June 1952
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A. Henry and J. Conaway, iron workers at Midvale Company Open Hearth, July 2, 1946
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Midvale Company employee Patrick Fitzgerald, of the Diesel and Steam Repair Department, cleans locomotive #45 with steam Jenny and powered soap, May 31, 1949
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Cars parked near road during the STFU meeting
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Mayor Robert Wagner speaking at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Triangle fire, March 1961
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John F. Kennedy greeted by many, November 15, 1963. Included in the crowd are David Dubinsky and George Meany.
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Primarily Hispanic Bensie workers strike in support of fellow workers' lockout by NY Imperieal (Bensie's parent company). Workers hold signs in English and Spanish.
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Mourners line the streets during a funeral procession for victims of the Triangle fire, April 5, 1911
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Midvale Company employee cleaning casting. Photo taken for National Safety Council and Midvale Safety Department, 1949
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Picketers support Chicago Hirsh, Son Inc., employees who are on strike. One sign says "The Day of the Sweatshop is Over."
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From image verso: "Motions of a manager using a drill press. (First time he touched a drill press for 25 years)."
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Midvale Company engineer and locomotive #39 built by Whitcomb seen in steel yard, January 1952
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Christian minister speaking at an outdoor STFU meeting
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Layout of Midvale Company #4 machine shop, showing building and large steel objects, February 5, 1953
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Harry Truman and David Dubinsky at a podium with an ABC microphone
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Members of the ILGWU Local 105 picket against Woolworth's segregation and discrimination policies, 1963. In sunglasses is Eddy Walinus, and on his left, Morris Bagno
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Men are pressing in the foreground, while women and men sew in the rear of Kaufman's garment shop, 362 Madison St., [New York?], 1911.
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ILGWU members carry placards supporting George McGovern and Sargent Shriver at a campaign rally, October 15, 1972.
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Midvale Company operator O. Seibold fitting revolving center for lathes, August 9, 1943
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Members of ILGWU, including Charles Zimmerman and Edith Ransom, march in the 1937 May Day parade.
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Nathan Wolf, Rose Pesotta, Mrs. Wolf, Louis Levy, and George Wishnak, waiting for David Dubinsky at the Los Angeles train station
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Car parked in wooded area
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Men protest against rent increases and call for rent control
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Large group standing on a bridge over a river with others below
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Mr. Goldberg, a member of the ILGWU since 1910, working at a sewing machine on March 22, 1943 at the Donnie Dress shop, 148 W. 37 St., New York.
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Mayor Robert Wagner, Senator Herbert Lehman, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, ILGWU President David Dubinsky, and others watch as Mrs. Mary Rockefeller sews an ILGWU union label into a garment.
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Bird's eye view of Midvale Company Steel Works from roof of main office building looking north, September 1, 1948
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From image verso: "Polo grounds and Giants at Polo grounds." Giants batter mid-swing.
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Midvale Company locomotive #42, moving lower crosshead beam (B 5188, #237018) shipped April 16, 1954. Manufactured for Loewy Hydropress, for US Air Force Heavy Metal Program
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ILGWU Local 145 strike outside of Besserman's Dress Factory, March 15, 1958
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David Dubinsky sitting and Lyndon B. Johnson standing, each talking on a telephone.
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Mendelsohn's Home for children, France
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A man, possibly Frederick W. Taylor, standing in front of Taylor's famous steam hammer #10 at Midvale Steel Company, ca. 1890
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A large group gathers at Unity House for a discussion of the economic basis of modern civilization.
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Midvale Company employees leaving plant, July 1951
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An alley and stairs outside a garment shop shows cloth scraps falling out of a barrel.
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Crowds gather to mourn Triangle fire victims the day after the tragedy, March 26, 1911
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H. L. Mitchell (Harry Leland Mitchell), executive secretary and later president of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, working in his office at the STFU headquarters in Memphis, TN
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ILGWU Local 10 baseball player at bat
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Members of the ILGWU Local 148 Mandolin Orchestra with their instruments at Union City, NJ, September 1934
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Ella Gerber sings "Oh, It Isn't Cricket" in a performance of "Pins & Needles."
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Midvale Company employee with calipers measures steel in the Smith Shop, August 1932
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Nelson Rockefeller, Dubinsky's granddaughter Ryna Appleton, David Dubinsky, Robert Wagner, and George Meany wave to the public at a Labor Day parade.
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From image verso: "Chronocyclegraph machine for making accurately timed and pointed spots."
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Supporters of John F. Kennedy's bid for the presidency carry placards with the ILGWU union label prominently displayed.
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Man speaking at a microphone in a rural outdoor setting
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Striking members of ILGWU Local 187, from the Chicago Rubber Clothing Co., gather on the sidewalk in Racine, IL, for a group photo, December 3, 1934.
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A cutter lays across a table to cut a stack of fabric with a power tool.
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A group of dressmakers on strike hold signs urging unionization and fair labor practices, 1958.
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Luigi Antonini and Sidney Hillman working to 'get out the vote.'
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A demonstration by the Italian-American Labor Council. Placards read: "The Italian-American Labor Council says: Don't Let Italy Disappear Behind the Iron Curtain!" "...Hands Off Democratic Italy!" "...Free America and Free Italy -- Pillars of Liberty an
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Mrs. Eugenia Meany sews an ILGWU union label into a garment while David Dubinsky, Martin Cohen, George Meany, and others watch.
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Bramson Organization for Rehabilitation (ORT) Trade School, women instructing men and women sewing
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David Dubinsky and John F. Kennedy discuss an article, 1954.
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Sol Chakin and Louis Stulberg at a table with microphones
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Bird's eye view of Midvale Company Steel Works from roof of main office building looking north, September 1, 1948
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Portrait of Scott Nearing, radical economist, pacifist, educator, and political activist, who served as the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee from 1905-1907
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Men getting free coffee in a bread line
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"Old newspaper - Myrtle's house." Tattered newspaper used to cover a wood plank wall at Myrtle, and Ben Lawrence's home
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