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  • Collection: On the Job in Illinois Collection

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A United States Mail parade float featuring two men in postal employee uniforms in front of a large mailbox appears in a parade in Chicago on behalf of the United States Postal Service.

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A worker sets type at the La Salle Street Press in Chicago.

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Steve Carr, a photographer for "On the Job in Illinois", uses his Nikon camera to photograph himself the mirror of a vehicle.

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Employees work on bicycles in the assembly shop at the Schwinn Bicycle Factory in Chicago.

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Several workers prep and paint the exterior of an American Airlines aircraft.

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Photo caption: "Caskets move through Paint Room on conveyor for color and finish coat. Progress Industries, Inc., Arthur, Ill."

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A forklift operator moves boxes of Cheerios houses in the General Mills facility in West Chicago.

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A man stands in front of a building pressing a button on a radiotelephone.Photo caption: "A product truly ahead of its time, the DYNA-T.A.C. portable radiotelephone system, first demonstrated by Motorola in 1973, is similar to a normal dial…

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A woman uses the "Mailomat", a coin-operated postage machine, outside of a Chicago post office.

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An unidentified ANCO employee takes his lunch break.

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Two women sit on top of a power shovel dipper while two men stand behind a horse-drawn wagon and its driver at the side of the dipper.Photo caption: "Largest all-manganese steel power shovel dipper ever made, 15 cubic yards 37 tons, shipped Feb.…

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A worker fills large bags with white cake mix at the General Mills facility in St. Charles.

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An unidentified Sara Lee employee fills aluminum pie tins on an assembly line with cinnamon roll dough.

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A contractor displays several warnings on his hard hat.

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A female employee combs cotton gauze at Johnson & Johnson.

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An employee scoops dry ice into a container on top of a piece of unidentified machinery at Chemetron in Chicago.

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Several men work on a construction project.

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Workers take a metalogical sampling at the #4 Basic Oxygen Furnace of Inland Steel in East Chicago, Indiana.On verso: "East Chicago, Indiana 1970; Basic Oxygen Furnace "BOF" metallurgists. Metallurgical sampling at the #4 B.O.F.; Astra DD…
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