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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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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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Drawing of a family performing industrial homework, living in squalid conditions. Published in Harpers Weekly, July 28, 1883
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From image verso: "Method of attaching light to hand for cyclegraph pictures (see also Applied Motion Study, Sturgis & Walton East 27 St. New York City)." Light ring on finger of hand holding hammer resting on a nail. Image identified as 610-G159 and sign
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A woman ironing in a shop
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William Wan, Mattie Jackson, and Sal Qune, members of ILGWU Local 101, record an interview.
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Women of Rose Dress on strike during a snow storm in Montreal, Canada. One placard is in English and the other is in French.
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Female Shirtwaist makers hold signs that read "Workhouse Prisoner." The caption reads: "Girls who served on Blackwell's Island and were cheered last night."
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ILGWU General Executive Board group photograph around the conference table includes Max Danish, Morris Bialis, Luigi Antonini, David Dubinsky, and Julius Hochman.
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Mexican dress makers on strike against Dorthy Frocks Co., visit Myrle Zappane who was detained in the city jail after being convicted of violating harsh injunctions granted to the company by the fourth court of civil appeals.
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ILGWU Local 91 chorus holds up signs reading, "41 + 50 = 91+ ILGWU+ AFL+ CIO = UNITY"
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Women and children of the ILGWU Educational Department visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 16, 1935.
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Portrait of Abraham Beckerman, socialist party member who supported the 6 hour work day
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A woman arranging clothing to press
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Women from the ILGWU Upper South Department waving from among decorated cars with placards.
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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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Portrait of David Dubinsky at his desk, upon assuming the office of ILGWU president, June 1938
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Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman listen to the complaints of New York City garment workers' representatives.
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