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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural workers loading sugar cane onto a cart pulled by two donkeys. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane, Morgan City, LA."
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Vegetable Dealer with Cart

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Description: An elderly African American vegetable dealer in a donkey-driven cart parked in front of a row of windows.
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Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1915
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.
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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...
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Mexican Wood Wagons

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Description: A man wearing a hat is standing in a side street in Juarez, Mexico next to two donkeys laden with bundles of wood. Caption reads: "Mexican Wood Wagons, Jua...
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Street Scene with Donkeys

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Description: A man in stands behind five donkeys, each laden with chopped wood in the middle of a dirt road. Caption reads: "Street Scene, Las Vegas, New Mexico."
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Men with Livestock

Date: 1914
Description: Group of men in a pen with livestock, including pigs, sheep, a cow, a donkey and horses. The livestock was owned by the Piney Woods Country Life School.
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A Mule Pulling A Toboggan

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene down a hill of a young boy or girl riding a mule which is pulling a toboggan up the snow-covered hill. Children in winter clothing run up the ...
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Algerian with Donkey

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front is standing with a donkey under a tree. Two rifles are leaning against the tree. He is wearing a cap an...
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"In the Land of the Sky"

Date: 1900
Description: Composite view of a man sitting in front of a cabin, a boy riding a donkey, and a man driving an ox-drawn sledge.
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Buildings at Saltillo Works

Date: 1973
Description: Buildings near International Harvester's Saltillo Works in Mexico. A donkey stands at left, and a tractor is parked in front of a building near a large, st...
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Sphinx de Gizeh

Date: 1890
Description: The Sphinx at Giza in Egypt. Three men are standing or sitting on the shoulder of the Sphinx, and several men are sitting in the shade below with two camel...
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Violet Lee Dousman and Fellow Travelers and Guides

Date: 1896
Description: A group portrait of Violet Lee Dousman (back row, 3rd from left) and her fellow travelers, guides and Egyptians on a trip to Giza, Egypt. Five people are r...
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John Deere Tractor Specifications

Date: 1928
Description: Listing of John Deere farm tractor specifications. The text is set against a background photograph of men working on a farm with a silo and donkeys in the ...
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Railroad Employees Posed on Donkeys

Date: 1906
Description: Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J...
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Posing with a Donkey

Date: 1961
Description: View over wire fence towards a woman standing behind a donkey holding her by the halter. The donkey's foal stands in front of her. A small barn with an ope...
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Dickey Chapelle with Donkey

Date: 1945
Description: Dickey Chapelle wearing a heavy coat and kneeling to feed hay to a donkey next to a cart on a street in a city in Geurande, France. She has a camera around...
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Long Line of Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards eleven horse-drawn mowers in a long line. Each man is driving a team of two horses or donkeys to pull the mowers. Some of the hor...
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Vilas Park Zoo's Sicilian Donkey

Date: 02 04 1964
Description: Sicilian donkey at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Conrad Seipp Jr. in Egypt

Date: 01 1909
Description: Three men in western dress riding camels pose with their Egyptian guides in front of the Sphinx at the Giza necropolis, with the Cheops pyramid in the back...

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