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| 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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine. The picker is mounted on a Farmall tractor. |
| 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: | Men on a city street with bales of cotton loaded onto wagons, possibly in Shawnee, Oklahoma. |
| Date: | 06 1939 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor as another man stands on the tank of an attached 150-gallon sprayer while applying pesti... |
| Date: | 09 20 1924 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a platform made of wood while using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a grove of fruit trees. Another man stands on the back, and another man... |
| Date: | 06 29 1939 |
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| Description: | Four men use a 150 gallon sprayer and a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to an orchard. The photograph was taken in Markham, Ontario, Can... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men use a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor and a "reforestation machine" as they plant trees for timber production. |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Three men pose on a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor outfitted with an orchard sprayer in front of a grove of trees. |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1929 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International tractor through an orchard while another man uses an orchard sprayer to apply what is probably pesticide to the trees. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two men use a McCormick-Deering tractor and an orchard sprayer to apply pesticide to trees at night. |
| Date: | 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries. |
| Date: | 09 14 1910 |
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| Description: | William Meuer and friends identified as "the Hansens" picking cranberries on Mason Lake. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Men in waders harvesting cranberries. In the foreground the fields have been flooded for the harvest. In the background crates have been stacked along the ... |
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