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Fairchild Grain Elevator

Date: 12 28 1906
Description: Landscape photograph of the Fairchild grain elevator on a winter's day. There are workers steering two horse-drawn carts in the foreground.
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Baling Sisal Fiber

Date: 1949
Description: Several workers bundle fiber in a building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Nearby, there is a large wagon on tracks loaded with fib...
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Sisal Fiber Bale on IH Plantation in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: A man wearing a cowboy hat is using hooks on the end of a chain to move a bale of sisal fiber on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. A curved t...
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American Fruit Growers Wash House

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Men stand on a platform to load an International Model C-30 truck with celery at the American Fruit Growers Wash House.
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Field Workers With Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: A group of field workers fill crates with celery to be loaded on the bed of an International Model C-30 truck. The truck was owned by Joe Fields Service Co...
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Crating Melons

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Description: A worker, probably in California, and probably a member of Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union local P78, crating melons for shipment.
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Men Baling Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Group of men baling cotton in a warehouse.
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Men Baling Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men baling cotton in a warehouse.
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Men Hauling Bales of Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men transporting large bales of cotton in a warehouse or loading dock.
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Men Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: Elevated view of harvesters wading through cranberries contained by booms to feed them onto a conveyor to be loaded into the waiting trucks.

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