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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men harvesting hemp using a McCormick Farmall H tractor and hemp binder No.2. In the background are houses among trees. |
| Date: | 09 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter rear view from left of a man driving an IHC Farmall Cub with mower in Joe Spence's apple orchard. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Six women and a man on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor modified for de-tasseling work. The unit was built with a special mounting frame by Knudsen ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal fibre (fiber) at a factory or mill in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Comp... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing sisal at a factory in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Company as part of its twine producti... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick-Deering M-12-H cotton picker. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif... |
| Date: | 07 06 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing in field of high clover. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men are watching as cotton is unloaded from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon. A Farmall tractor is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in a cotton field. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of fifteen-year-old Peggy Wold operating a McCormick-Deering 123-SP (self-propelled) harvester-thresher (combine) on the farm of Car... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Three farm workers loading straw from a baler onto the back of an International K-6 truck owned by Sowash Grain Company. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Field test of an experimental International Harvester cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. The caption reads "Experimental IH low-drum 1-row Farma... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Lula Lawrence, lsft, and Esther Gunderson combing hemp fibers. In the background two women are sorting hemp fiber bundles for rope and cordage during Worl... |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Two girls, holding turkey feathers, are watching the production line at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, where two women workers are plucking turkeys. |
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