Posts tagged labor

Repair Gang, 1930, Chicago. Tunis Ponsen

Unemployed men gather in front of the Daily News office (at Madison and Wells) to get the first editions of the jobs wanted classifieds, 1921, Chicago.

Ships carrying ore arrive at Inland Steel Chicago Works, 1941, Chicago.

Building the lake tunnel, which would connect the Water Tower to the Crib, 1867, Chicago.

Building circuit boards at the Admiral Television Company, 1954, Chicago.

A blind newsboy delivers papers with the help of his trusty canine, 1902, Chicago.

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Beginning construction on the Lake St. ‘L’, Lake St and Milwaukee Ave, 1889, Chicago

The Lake St. ‘L’ would not start operations until 1893

Greg Borzo Collection

Window Washer, 1927, Chicago. David McCosh

The Anarchists Martyrdom Monument (Haymarket Riot) in Waldheim Cemetery as it appeared around 1930, Chicago (Forest Park).

Moving to Slaughter, Union Stockyards, 1946, Chicago. Tom Lea

Casting pig iron at the Iroquois Smelter, 1890, Chicago.

Detroit Publishing Co. via Library of Congress

Laying sewer pipes along Lawrence Ave, 1918, Chicago

Sanitation worker, 1948, Chicago. Joe Scherschel

Inside the Lincoln Boyle and Co. ice warehouse at a Chicago railyard, 1943.

Stockyards, 1930, Chicago. Margaret Bourke-White