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Drying Sisal Fibre in Yucatan

Date: 1910
Description: Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production.
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Young Boys Posed with Pumpkins and Watermelons

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Description: Group of young boys, all wearing hats, posing in front of a building with an assortment of pumpkins and watermelons.
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Man Spraying Field Crops

Date: 1919
Description: Young man in a field spraying pesticide on crops for the Bowker Insecticide Company.
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Elderly Woman Picking Turnips

Date: 02 23 1915
Description: Mrs. James M. Baker in her winter garden picking turnips. Original caption reads: "She was pulling some winter turnips which behind her were multiplying. I...
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Winter Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Dr. Beeson tending to lettuce and onions in his winter garden. Original caption reads: "These vegetables have been under cultivation all winter and have be...
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Picking Beans at a Chicago Vegetable Garden

Date: 1917
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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Hemp on Vacant Lots

Date: 08 02 1917
Description: Superintendant Haney of International Harvester Company (left), Senator Beebe, Professor Holden, and J.W. Parmley stand in a hemp field sown on May 19, 191...
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Sisal Leaves

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine.
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Boy and Girl Working in the Field

Date: 1917
Description: A girl and a boy doing field work beside a wagon.
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Field Work

Date: 1920
Description: Two men working with walking cultivators(?) in a field.
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Mowing Weeds

Date: 1921
Description: A man using a scythe to cut weeds in field.
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Family Weeding Garden

Date: 08 1914
Description: John Van Ness and his niece and nephew removing weeds from their "truck patch." Mr. Van Ness is using a hoe.
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Men in Automobile near Hay Loader

Date: 1919
Description: View across field. Two men in the foreground on the left are sitting in an automobile. Behind them men are working with a hay loader and a wagon in the fie...
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Push Binder

Date: 1919
Description: View across field towards a man operating a push binder powered by three horses.
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McCormick Push Binder

Date: 1919
Description: A farmer and his team of horses operating a McCormick push binder.
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McCormick Reaper

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Description: Rear view of a farmer looking over his shoulder as he is driving a McCormick self-rake reaper.
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Farmhands Working with Cane

Date: 11 24 1915
Description: A group of farmhands, including young boys, stripping the fodder from the cane before it is taken to the press where the sap is extracted.
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Farmer's Corn Co-op

Date: 1920
Description: Two men standing in a farmers' corn co-op. The sign reads: "Demonstration Corn Plat.; Farmers Co-operation; Demonstration Work; U.S. Department of Agricult...
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Corn Binder

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Description: Left side view of a farmer driving two horses pulling a corn binder.
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Dunson Corn Land

Date: 02 16 1915
Description: Walker Lee Dunson standing in a cornfield, possibly near Hillabee Creek in Tallapoosa County.

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