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A man hand-sewing or cutting a garment in front of a rack of dresses or coats.
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Lake City picket, with police protection. A Wentworth picketer wears a sign that reads "Local 534 ILGWU on strike..."
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The ILGWU Local 160 Underwear & Brassiere Workers' Union womens' basketball team from Bayone, NJ poses with the local's banner.
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Panel from Diego Rivera's mural depicting the aftermath of the Civil War, combining ideals of Reconstruction with the horrors of the post-war South. Important figures include Benjamin Wade, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Walt Whitman.
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Israel Feinberg, VP ILGWU; James Farrell, author of STUDS LONIGAN; and Bernard Englander, World War II veteran and head of Optical Unit, International Solidarity Committee, help with overseas CARE package, at 303 4th Ave. in New York, January 23, 1947.
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William Green welcomes David Dubinsky and the ILGWU back into the AFL as Luigi Antonini, Julius Hochman, and others look on, May 1940, Carnegie Hall. The old charter was returned to the Ladies Garment Workers.
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Feminist labor activist Rose Pastor stokes and others meet to discuss a strike.
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ILGWU members parade with their children holding an American flag and banners that read: "Future generations of Int. Ladies Garment Workers Union AF of L," "Your future lies with Dressmakers, join us."
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Tom Mooney and Warren Billings in front of jail bars
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Crowds gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Triangle fire, March 1961
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From image verso: "Assembly [packet?] of arranging in an 'obvious sequence' the parts of a shoe string machine. This study resulted in enabling the worker to do over 3 times as much - (see paper by John G. Aldrich, Amer Soc. Mech Engineers Transactions 1
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Harry S. Truman and Luigi Antonini shake hands over the Four Freedoms plaque.
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Black and White STFU members including Olin Lawrence, seated in front, listen to Norman Thomas speak outside Parkin, Arkansas on September 12, 1937.
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Close-up of a woman's hands guiding fabric under a sewing machine head
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Workers operate hammer #1 punching tire bloom at Midvale Steel Company, ca. 1887
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Portrait of Henryk Erlich, a journalist and leader of the Polish Bund in Warsaw
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Adlai Stevenson and David Dubinsky shake hands on stage at an AFL convention, September 1952.
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Robert F. Kennedy talking with David Dubinsky in his office, 1962
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Director of the ILGWU Upper South Department, Angela Bambace. Behind her are Gus Tyler and Douglas Levin.
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An African American man is preparing to serve a meal in the Midvale Steel Company dining room, ca. 1887
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From image verso: "Bricklaying. This study allowed the bricklayer to do more than three times as much work." Three men at a construction site laying bricks
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ILGWU Cleveland Health Center
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Four Black people stand under a tree at an outdoor STFU meeting
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Black and White STFU members including Ben and Myrtle Lawrence, standing, and Olin Lawrence, seated in front, listen to Norman Thomas speak outside Parkin, Arkansas on September 12, 1937.
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Two women receiving ILGWU welfare benefit checks. One has a suitcase marked "Unity House."
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Rose Schneiderman sews a long fabric strip on a machine with a mound of fabric behind her.
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Ella Clark Brown (seated, second from right) with management, TV, radio, advertising, and newspaper executives, labor representatives, and lawyers. To Brown's right is the granddaughter of Governor Winthrop.
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From image verso: "Chronocyclograph of golf champion- Francis [?] ."
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Two women make artificial flowers at home, October 7, 1944.
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David Dubinsky greets John Dewey on his 90th birthday, October 20, 1949. William H. Kilpatrick, Professor Emeritus of Education at Columbia University, looks on.
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Photographer Louise Boyle and historian Priscilla Smith Robertson chat with some children outside the Dyess Cafe, August 1982
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Confrontation between two men during a Boston garment strike. Policeman intervenes: Gonslston (Red Squad) right in center.
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Picketers in front of Superior Products factory in Puerto Rico demand dignified treatment, drinking water, and a fair minimum wage.
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Black men gather in a building to pay union dues
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Elroe Kimbrell picking cotton
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Efficiency expert Mitchell Lokiec overseeing women garment workers for a time-motion study, 1957
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Midvale Company diesel locomotive #39, built by Whitcomb, 1952
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Group photo of women employees of the Reliance Waist Co. ca. 1910
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White and African American male strikers of ILGWU Local 23-25 wear signs while picketing against Judy Bond blouses.
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David Dubinsky and A. Philip Randolph
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From image verso: "Champion typist."
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Jennie Matyas and David Dubinsky at dinner
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Women in the ILGWU Chorus of Bridgeport, CT
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Women sewing in a shop
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David Dubinsky delivering a speech, as John L. Lewis and others listen
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CIO and AFL Conference, March 10, 1939, Biltmore Hotel, New York, with Harry C. Bates, Matthew Woll, Tomas Pickirt, Daniel Tobin, Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray, John L. Lewis
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Midvale Company operators opening 50 ton ladle to pour molten steel, 1930
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Members of the Union Label Chorus perform on a set that includes sewing machines and clothing on racks.
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Women sewing in a garment shop, November 12, 1962
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Harry Truman speaks at a black-tie event. Above him is a portrait of Samuel Gompers.
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The Triangle Waist Company fire escape, weakened by the heat of the fire, leads from upper floors of the Asch Building
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Group of primarily Chinese American women at Unity House
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David Dubinsky and others in a posed group photograph
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A manufacturer and the Union Price Committee examine garments to estimate the work involved as a basis for piece rates.
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David Dubinsky looks at a sculpted bust of himself.
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Group listening to speaker at an outdoor STFU meeting
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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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Philip Kramer of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Boston, and his wife Ann Kramer, celebrate his recent retirement with Arthur Marcus, Jay Fialkow, Sol Chaikin, Selma Gottlieb, and Edward Milano, November 19, 1972.
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A man preparing to press a garment in an early garment factory
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Midvale Company employees signing the American Federation of Labor agreement, July 30, 1954
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