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Loading Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loads sisal leaves onto a small train car at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading leaves on the train car...
Photograph

Loading Sisal Fiber

Date: 01 22 1910
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...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Powertrax Brochure

Date: 02 1936
Description: Cover of a International Harvester Powertrax brochure describing "Mobile and Stationary Industrial Power." Includes a photograph of a man hauling cargo wit...
Print

Pittsburg Landing, Battle of Shiloh

Date: 1887
Description: Engraving of Pittsburg Landing taken from a photograph a few days after the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), which occurred on April 6-7, 1862. The image sho...
Photograph

Rapid Transit

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Description: View of oxen-drawn wagons along the Indian River.
Photograph

Men and Young Boys on the Open Road

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Description: View of two men and five young boys posed on the open road with an oxen-drawn wagon and water barrels. Published by Mercedes Drug Company.
Photograph

Mule Freight Team

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Description: View of a long mule freight team lined up in the street storefronts behind them. One stands at the front, and another stands on a wagon wheel in the back.

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