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Item No. Who? What? Where? When?
Photographs and Prints
1 A woman, a man, and four children; farm laborers Harvesting hops Puget Sound area of Washington state Between 1890 and 1893
2 Men working Watching over crushing machines and walking on catwalks above machines Great Western sugar plant in Fort Collins, Colorado Between 1900 and 1910
3 Factory workers standing by their stations Working at the carbonation station Great Western sugar plant in Greeley, Colorado Between 1902 and 1910
4 Men and their machines Mining West Virginia (?) Between 1920 and 1950
5 Coal breaker boys Mining Kingston, Pennsylvania Between 1890 and 1910
6 Workers on an assembly line in a factory Making bearings for the Ford Motor Company Detroit, Michigan (?) 1924
7 Coal miners Hauling coal from a mine Unknown, possibly Pennsylvania or West Virginia Between 1915 and 1925
8 Factory workers Assembling engines Cadillac Motor Car Company, possibly Detroit, Michigan Between 1900 and 1920
9 Men and women working at a factory Interior view of Kuner Pickle Company factory Brighton (Adams County) Colorado Between 1912 and 1920
10 Workers in a factory Interior boiler room, sugar factory Loveland, Colorado Between 1900 and 1910
11 Workers in a factory Slicing machine, sugar factory Eaton, Colorado Between 1902 and 1930
12 Men in a warehouse Interior warehouse, sugar factory Loveland, Colorado Between 1900 and 1910
Documents
1 Working men Poster to announce assembly in protest over the shooting of a fellow employee by a policeman Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois 1886
2 Senator Sherman article about the Pullman Strike Newspaper article speaking out on tipping employees who are underpaid by the railways From Cleveland Gazette (Ohio) 1894
3 Republicans and Democrats at a demonstration To honor President Roosevelt Cleveland Journal, (Ohio) 1905
4 Railway workers Article on the need for fair wages for railway workers Article in the North American Review, published in Boston, Massachusetts 1877
5 Coal miners Article on a mining explosion Pittston, Pennsylvania 1876
Sheet Music
1 Children who are working Children singing and praying while working In a factory 1870-1885
2 Labors who are striking Singing during a strike to raise morale On the picket line 1870-1885
3 Tired women who work The Song of the Shirt about work and poverty Published at 38 Chatham Street, New York No date
4 Striking workers The Workers' anvil with words about workers rights Published in Rochester, New York 1878
5 Dedicated to all working girls Give our Work-girls a Little More Pay/Need for fair wages Published in New York 1885

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