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At the John B. Stetson Company Christmas party, MacKinnon presents a speech and warns the employees about pessimism of the current conditions.

Hatters outlawed all mercurial compounds used in preparing furs and developed non-mercurial compounds to make felt.

Newspaper article that discusses the importance of eliminating illiteracy among adult immigrants. Dr. Edwin C. Broom pushed the idea of using "Pershing's Rule". General Pershing ordered compulsory studies for army soldiers who could not read or…

The strikers of the Stetson Factory refused to return to work and refused any help from the Union.

A Stetson factory building being demolished

Doris Barish (left) is acting as an interpreter showing Magdalina Gil how to handle an English telephone.

Several men in suits stand alongside police officers as spectators at a police parade "...reviewing the turnout..."

A large group of General electric service shop employees. It seems that those in charge are standing in the back in suits and hats.

Bluecoats, armed with sawed-off shotguns, undergoing inspection by Lieutenant Harry Edwards, police drillmaster, and Lieutenant George Fritz, police director of traffic.

A picture of young individuals looking for summer employment. These employment offices are common as teenagers apply for jobs and working papers. There were three other office locations in the city that offered employment certificates.