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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago. |
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| Description: | A Phillippine Islands boy is using a sharp tool to cut down a manila plant, while another young boy is supporting it. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A boy removing layers from a manila plant in the Philippine Islands. Another boy is carrying parts of the stripped plant over his right shoulder. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man pulls fiber from the leaves of a manila plant in the Philippine Islands. Other men look on over his shoulder, and a dwelling or other structure is in... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Men use donkeys to pull carts loaded with sisal fiber along railroad tracks on a wharf at Progreso, Yucatan. The fiber is being loaded onto or off of steam... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Young man outside a barn pitching piles of manure. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip. Manure, J.A. Butler." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of men on a city street with bales of cotton loaded in horse-drawn wagons. One of the wagons is a Springfield Wagon. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Farm employee housing. Original caption reads: "employees cottages on Briarcliff Farms." Children are sitting on the porch of the house in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of men and young boys are gathered outdoors while weighing bales of cotton on a large hanging scale manufactured by Smith. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men on a city street with bales of cotton loaded onto wagons, possibly in Shawnee, Oklahoma. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men transporting large bales of cotton in a warehouse or loading dock. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line... |
| Date: | 03 16 1915 |
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| Description: | Man using a walking fertilizer in a field. Original caption reads: "This man is distributing cotton seed fertilizer on a field on which only the week befor... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three men in a field working on an International 8-16 tractor. One of the men is dressed in a suit. There are houses in the background. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men and women are seated at tables inspecting corn, most likely as part of an instructional session organized by the IH Agricultural Extension. There is a ... |
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