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Workers at the Union Health Center gathered around a table, examining files
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Lazar Teper, in his office
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Men, women, and children pose in an early group photo.
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"Testing Engineer at Work." A man, possibly Frederick W. Taylor, sits in a chair observing an engineer at work at Midvale Steel Company, ca, 1885
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Norman Thomas speaking at an outdoor STFU meeting. An unidentified Black man stands with him on stage
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A man, woman, and child with a horse-drawn cart in front of a fruit and vegetable store. A sign on the cart in English and Yiddish reads, "We are Collecting Provisions for the Striking Tailors: Please help."
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Women sewing in a garment shop, November 12, 1962
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An ILGWU Local 105 woman sewing in a shop
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Portrait of David Dubinsky (with program in pocket), BC Vladeck (with rose), Fiorello LaGuardia (front right) and others
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Ray and Barbara Lawrence and their children next to the "cinder block foundation for the house they are building," August 1982
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Portrait of Henry S. Dennison of Dennison Manufacturing, a follower of Frederick W. Taylor and scientific management, and an adviser to Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, ca. 1928
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Home of Raphael and Hester Block, considered to be leading merchant of Vanndale and landlord of Ben and Myrtle Lawrence
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Interior view of Myrtle and Ben Lawrence's home includes hearth and mantle with decorations, canning jars, ceramic pots, sewing machine, photographs, furniture and other possessions
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Dyess Colony Hospital exterior
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Midvale Company employee working on roll with sleeve for U.S. Steel Company. (53' diameter, 49" long body), January 22, 1953
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Local 10 Amalgamated Ladies Garment Cutters Union, ILGWU, on strike for better working conditions and higher pay in front of First National City Bank. Picketers includes Charles Zimmerman and Luigi Antonini at center front
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Drawing 10 inch army hoops on the Midvale Steel Company steam hammer #10, ca. 1889
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The main office building built in 1883 on the South side of Midvale Steel Company plant, facing Midvale Ave., ca. 1887
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Julius Hochman, George Meany, David Dubinsky, and Luigi Antonini shake hands at a Free Trade Union meeting.
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A group of women raise hands to volunteer for picket duty during the Shirtwaist strike of 1909-1910.
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From the image verso: "The Chamber of Commerce of Wynne, Arkansas, welcomed us in August 1982 with a sign celebrating the contemporary world. Our 1937 billboard Delta planter had disappeared though the company he advertised was going strong. On the site o
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Elroe Kimbrell and Sylvia Lawrence picking cotton
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From image verso: "The Home Reading Box movement - See Fatigue Study. Sturgis and Walter. East 27th St. New York City." A man drives a horse-drawn wagon carrying books
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John F. Kennedy visiting sewing shop during political campaign
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STFU members at an outdoor meeting
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E.B. McKinney, STFU Vice President (left), standing with two unidentified men, one of whom holds a gun
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The ILGWU Mobile Health Center is prepared for lifting so it can be shipped to a new location.
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Local 10 Cutters Union Championship basketball team being congratulated by Julius Hochman
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African American and white shipping clerks strike in front of a fire for better wages and union recognition.
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ILGWU Wyoming Valley District 25th Anniversary, Locals 249-295-327, March 2, 1962
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Three men stand at the door of an empty store front. A wagon out front is loaded with large sacks. A sign in the window in English and Yiddish reads "Help the garment workers in their fight for bread and freedom."
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Senator Herbert Lehman and Newbold Morris shake hands at a luncheon at the Hotel Astor, as Isidore Nagler and David Dubinsky look on, October 22, 1949.
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David Dubinsky poses with six women wearing dresses patterned with the ILGWU union label
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Four black adults and one child picking cotton
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Small cotton house surrounded by agricultural fields
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Icy Jewel Lawrence, Snowbank Lawrence Kimbrell,and Lucille Kimbrell singing at an outdoor STFU meeting
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White and African American males hold signs that read: "The Dress Shipping Clerks' Won't Cross the Picket Line. We Stand United with the Dressmakers Union!" 1958.
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Children playing on the lawn at Unity House
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From image verso: "2 cycles on drill press showing 'HABIT' positioning after transporting. Note the 'hesitation' before 'grasping.'"
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Women making brassieres at the Jem Manufacturing Corp. in Puerto Rico, March 1950
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Portrait of two young women believed to have died in the Triangle fire.
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Myrtle Lawrence sits on her porch holding a sleeping baby
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An African American man cuts fabric in a large garment shop with a power cutter.
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Black men at listening to speakers at an outdoor STFU meeting
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STFU members at an outdoor meeting
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A man cuts a stack of fabric in a garment shop.
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Young Black girls pick cotton into long sacks
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ILGWU Local 22's women's basketball team.
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Tonic and cold treatment advertisements nailed to a building exterior
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Man sitting on RUST cotton picker at Delta Cooperative
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Midvale Company employee J. [Konta?] picnic includes children eating cotton candy , July 16, 1949
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Picketers, with placards that urge people not to buy Judy Bond blouses, pose for a group photo outside the Gertz Center.
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Workers in the old Midvale Steel Company machine shop oversee the boring of an eight inch tube on a 48 inch lathe, ca. 1887
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A crowd forms outside the Labor Stage before a performance of "Pins and Needles."
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Midvale Company mechanic Larson, medium grinding on Noton Machine roll for Thomas Steel, July 1932
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Group of Black men listening to a speaker during an outdoor STFU meeting
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Men and women in a garment shop, hand and machine sewing surrounded by a pile of fabric bolts and floor covered in cloth scraps
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Men and a child sitting on porch of a store and "Shoe Hospital" at Delta Cooperative
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The World War II Liberty ship "USS Meyer London" at launching
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Men and women sew on machines in a large garment shop.
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