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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Built in 1840 by Lemuel Hull. William Singer was the mason. The basement was made by lowering the hill. There were originally only two stories. First ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Women wearing straw hats spread sisal fibers out to dry on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are s... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of workers load fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The dry fiber is being loaded for transporti... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Female workers wearing straw hats spread fiber out to dry at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory worker hangs sisal fiber over a railing, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The fiber as it comes ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in a field of sisal plants on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Splitting the leaf to make ties for the... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers bundle and transport fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundling the dry fiber or transporting ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker loads bundled leaves on to a rail or tram car in the middle of a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photogra... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker stands next to a tractor train on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Tractor train of leaves ready to l... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man carries two bundles of leaves on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundled leaves being carried out to t... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of workers laying railroad tracks in a field of sisal on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Leaves stacked at... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A line of workers forms in front of a table on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The workers are waiting to collect their payroll checks... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a group of three women and seven children sitting on the porch of a log cabin. The caption at top right corner reads: "On The Plantation." |
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