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Midvale Company open hearth 100 ton ladle, group of workers observing, September 9, 1943
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Foundry and CP Annex. Photo taken for National Safety Council and Midvale Company Safety Department, 1949
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May day Rally
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Midvale Company giant steel press made by United, 1953
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Industrial Lighting Advertisement "Good lighting like this - cuts costs because it doubles production during the twilight hours. Moreover, night shifts produced the equivalent of daytime crews. All this reduces manufacturing costs. Poor lighting like th
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Strikers, including Charles Zimmerman, during the 1958 Dressmakers' Strike stand around a car with sound equipment urging workers in the garment district to join their strike for better working conditions.
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Midvale Company Foundry and CP Annex. Photo taken for National Safety Council and Midvale Safety Department, 1949
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Picketers encourage the workers of Vargish to join the ILGWU.
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Midvale Company floorman group for #30 TP. Left to right: J. Stenson (1st Floor Hand), Hiness (Gang Boss), and Dobson (Shift Foreman), November 9, 1954
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Three male pressers at work in an attic sweatshop in 1912
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Midvale Company employees working with hot steel, 1953
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Industrial lighting advertisement. "Has your plant good lighting like this? Good lighting today is a recognized science..." Also shows a factory and offers a coupon for the publication "Better Factory Lighting Pays", 1926
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Pete Kelly tapping #13 Midvale Company furnace, open hearth, September 21, 1943
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Midvale Company employee F.M. Borek measuring to .040 on top of machine R2126, August 9, 1943
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A man cutting a tall stack of fabric with an electric cutter
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Midvale Company employee Herman Brock at 60" lathe, #4 machine shop, February 16, 1953
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Men pressing garments with gas irons in a high-ceiling room
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Midvale Company employees lean over debris at electric furnace, April 30, 1946
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Industrial Lighting Advertisement inside single-fold mailer "Poor lighting increases manufacturing costs. Good lighting lowers them...", 1926
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Midvale Company operator, Mike Gresh, opening door of furnace in Open Hearth Department, April 8, 1954
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Midvale Company employee skinning plate in #9 Machine Shop, December 1953
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Midvale Company employee Charles Neg operating manipulator to remove ingot from #19 press, April 8, 1954
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Midvale Company employee Henry Moore checking intermediate shaft for S. Morgan Smith Company, March 17, 1954
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Pouring moulton steel from Midvale Company Ajax furnace, 1946
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Midvale Company employees loading billets, August 1932
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Midvale Company employee examining a set of short thick steel rings, ca. 1953
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A man works on a long line of thread spools and machines.
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Midvale Company employees scarfing #2 A.T.P., February 2, 1953
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Midvale Company employees at electric furnace, April 30, 1946
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Midvale Company employees special burners John M. Burg and Joseph F. Reiley burning Loewy plate no. B14807, March 25, 1953
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Midvale Company employees at opening of co-op lunch room, April 23, 1946
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Midvale Company employee John D'Ortona checks the plate on the lower crosshead beam for the Loewy Hydropress Company, part of U.S. Airforce Heavy Metal Program. October 16, 1953
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Midvale Company #19 press and men operating manipulator, January 23, 1953
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Midvale Company employee leans over an electric furnace, April 30, 1946
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Midvale Company employee J. Olsen laying out tool post step rings for Navy unit-chrome nickel, #2 tool room, August 17, 1943
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Man using a Hoffman Steam Press
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Cold draw by Grant Mulchlitz for lantern slides at Midvale Company, January 1945
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Pouring low carbon stainless steel at Midvale Company electric furnace, 1949
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Operator Roma performing supersonic testing at Midvale Company, January 23, 1953
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Midvale Company employee E. Walton using magnetic crane in ATP, May 13, 1946
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Midvale Company employee Sebastion Budzmiski working at lathe, April 20, 1932
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Midvale Company employee Newton Dyson checking lathe, December 14, 1953
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Midvale Company employee Frank Meroddi cleaning covers, August 1932
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Midvale Company employee inspecting rings for Westinghouse, (23 13/6 x 4" x 27 1/8", O.D. 18-8), December 11, 1953
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Midvale Company riggers tying knot, October 20, 1930
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Midvale Company employees at electric furnace, April 30, 1946
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Midvale Company employees loading billets, August 1932
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Midvale Company employees Ben Moore and helper with cylinder for the Carbide and Carbon Company, March 5, 1948
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Industrial Lighting Advertisement "Errors breed under good light - and costs go up. Good lighting cuts costs...", 1926
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Midvale Company operator skinning armor billet, July 11, 1945
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Midvale Company operator R. Fraser (burner) skinning armor billet, July 12, 1945
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Midvale Company employee holding template to ring, July 1932
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Midvale Company employee Samuel Wattz Jr. at the trepanning lathe #2104003, April 14, 1953
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Midvale Company employee John Murtha with calliper at #19 press, ca. April 1954
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Illustration of a shop scene around 1911
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Workers in a large shop with many windows.
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A man transporting finished garments. One rack has "E.X.F. TRANS. CO.213 West 35th St. N.Y.C." stamped on the side of it.
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Sunshine on molds at Midvale Company, March 1932
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First heat in new Midvale Company Ajax furnace in foundry 1PM, July 3, 1946
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Midvale Company employees Ben Moore and helper with cylinder for Carbide and Carbon Company, March 5, 1948
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