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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ... |
| Date: | 05 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Bundles of twine (fibre) piled on hanging scales are weighed at International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory. |
| Date: | 12 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul a long train of carts holding bundles of fiber, possibly for burlap. Another man is lo... |
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| Description: | An interior view of large machines in the card room of Massachusetts Mill, which produced 1/7 of all textiles in Georgia. Caption reads: "No. 2 Card Room, ... |
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| Description: | A view of the Massachusetts Cotton Mill buildings, including the cloth room and the boiler rooms. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a spreading machine in an International Harvester twine mill, possibly at McCormick Works in Chicago. Fiber, possibly sisal, is piled on the floor ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hemp or sisal fiber piles on the floor of International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill as it is processed through spreading machines. The mill was locate... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a balling machine at the McCormick Twine Mill to wind twine onto wooden spools. |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in work clothes and a hat is stacking bales of pressed manila hemp into a very large pile that almost reaches the ceiling of the storage barn... |
| Date: | 10 01 1913 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in front of a large pile of manila hemp fiber. The fiber was used to create twine. The man is wearing overalls over his clothing and has ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A man is feeding a large bundle of manila hemp fiber into a piece of twine machinery. The man is dressed in overalls and has his sleeves rolled up. Surroun... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a Deering Harvester Company brochure for twine. The cover reads: "The Original Spinners," and "The World's Greatest Spinners, Deeri... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Rock River Cotton Company, with an elevated three-quarter view of the company building on the left, and a branch of the cotton plant with b... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Bales of twine next to a manufacturing machine at McCormick Works. Coils of manila are fed into the machine, which is belt-driven from the ceiling. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | One of the five hemp houses in the McCormick twine mills in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Spinning machine in factory. Belts attached to the ceiling power the machinery. Two men are standing on the right near bales of hemp. One of the men is fee... |
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| Description: | View of the mill just beyond railroad tracks, with smokestacks and a water tower. Caption reads: "Fibre Mills, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are unloading bales for twine stacked on a wagon. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 09 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are unloading bales for twine stacked on a wagon. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
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