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Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
Photograph

Children Riding Mules on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Four young boys ride mules in a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Agricultural laborers are in the background. Original caption...
Photograph

McCormick Binder in South Africa

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Men use a McCormick grain binder led by horses and mules to work in a field in Doornkloof, Moorressburg, South Africa.
Photograph

McCormick Binder in South African Field

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Rear view of a man using a team of mules and horses to lead a McCormick binder through a field in Malmesbury, South Africa. Another man is standing in fron...
Photograph

McCormick Binder in South African Field

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Rear view of man using a team of horses and mules to lead a McCormick grain binder through a field in DeLectus, Riebeek West, South Africa. In the far dist...
Photograph

Binder Teams in South African Field

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Three-quarter view of men using teams of horses and mules to drive two McCormick grain binders through a field in DeLectus, Riebeek West, South Africa. In ...
Photograph

Stalk Cutter

Date: 1915
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving two mules who are pulling a stalk cutter across a field of what is possibly tobacco or corn. There are t...
Photograph

Man with Plow and Mule

Date: 1914
Description: A man is using a mule to pull a walking plow through a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance.
Photograph

Man Using Corn Cultivator

Date: 1926
Description: A man is using two mules to pull a corn cultivator through a field on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm.
Magazine or Periodical

Tractor Tilling Cartoon

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cartoon entitled :"A Hint to The Sceptic" featuring a conversation between a farmer and a mule, intended to entice farmers into trying Smith Form-a-Tractor...
Book or Pamphlet

Port Huron Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Port Huron Wild Cat agitator and the Port Huron "rusher-thresher." The page features illustrations of a wild cat ...
Book or Pamphlet

Bates Steel Mule

Date: 1920
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Bates Steel Mule tractor, featuring an illustration of the machine on a frozen body of water with snow-covered trees in the backgr...
Book or Pamphlet

Settles the Tractor Question

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior fold of a pamphlet advertising the Bates Steel Mule Tractor. The text reads: "This Settles The Tractor Question For" with blank lines to fill in. ...

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