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Women Workers and Sausage Links

Date: 1949
Description: Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant.
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Mold Curing Tires

Date: 1949
Description: Employee of the United States Rubber Company at Eau Claire removing a tire from the curing mold.
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Drying Sisal Fibers in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Women wearing straw hats spread sisal fibers out to dry on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are s...
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Drying Sisal Fibers in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks."
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Loading Sisal Fiber in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: A group of workers load fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The dry fiber is being loaded for transporti...
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Spreading Sisal Fiber in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Female workers wearing straw hats spread fiber out to dry at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are...
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Decorticating Machine

Date: 1949
Description: Several men feed sisal leaves into the decorticating machine, most likely at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Here t...
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Unloading Leaves onto Decorticator Elevator

Date: 1949
Description: Factory workers unload leaves onto a decorticator elevator, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Unload...
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Sisal Entering Decorticating Machine

Date: 1949
Description: Factory workeres help feed sisal leaves into a decorticating machine, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba.
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Fiber Passing out of Decorticating Machine

Date: 1949
Description: Factory worker with a straw hat oversees sisal fibers as they pass out of a decorticating machine. possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cub...
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Sisal Fiber Processing

Date: 1949
Description: Factory worker hangs sisal fiber over a railing, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The fiber as it comes ...
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Weighing a Bale of Sisal Fiber

Date: 1949
Description: A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s...
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Loading Bales of Fiber onto Truck

Date: 1949
Description: Factory workers loading bales of fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading the weighed bales onto the ...
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Baker-Thomas Company Truck

Date: 1949
Description: An International Model KB-6-F truck used by Baker-Thomas Company parked near the front of a library building. Two men stand on the bed of the truck with st...
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Ready-Mix Concrete Mixer

Date: 1949
Description: Men from the Gethmann Concrete & Material Company use a Ready-Mix concrete mixer on the chassis of an International KB-8 truck.

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