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Four women are seated at a long work table in a warehouse room. One is holding a bag under a small funnel at the base of a large machine. On the side of the machine, above the woman’s head, is a scale enclosed in a metal box with a glass window. …

Four women are sitting at a long wooden work table at the Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company. Numerous, dark glass bottles with label reading “Vimalt the health tonic,” may be seen on the table. The women’s task appears to be to pack the bottles…

Nine men are seen posing around completed millwork items. Stacked on several carts are doors, drawers, columns and molding pieces. Prominent in the image are the large beams supporting the warehouse ceiling. An ascending stairway, electric wiring and…

Three men are posing near a large engine in the engine room of the Dubuque Brewing and Malting Company. Large turbine blades are visible behind the man in the foreground of the photograph. No number has been written on the emulsion side of the…

Two men stand, pressing partially finished clothing, at a table on sawhorses in the foreground, while a man and 3 women sit at tables and sewing machines in the back of a workroom in Fred Doerrmann’s tailor shop. Both sewing machines appear to be…

A woman, perhaps in her twenties, is standing between two counters in a soda fountain store. Her reflection may be seen in the mirror behind the back counter. She is dressed in a long sleeved, dark dress with a large white collar, white cuffs and a…

In this view of a corner of the office of Mullen Brothers plumbing shop, three men are standing near two doorways in the rear of the office. A fourth man is standing near a desk, and another man is seated at a desk looking at some documents. Two…