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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard... |
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| Description: | Workers loading logs onto an International RF-230 logging truck owned by George M. Pierson. A man is in a forklift behind the truck, and another man is sta... |
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| Description: | A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt... |
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| Description: | A view of a logging scene. White and African American workers are posing for a group portrait. Oxen are pulling logs, and other large logs are piled on bot... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on the railroad tracks. There are locomotives and railroad cars on the tracks. Some children are standing on the tracks near t... |
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| Description: | A team of eight oxen pulling a wagon filled with logs. One man is standing by the side of the oxen, while three other men wearing large hats and an African... |
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| Description: | Women sorting peanuts in the Gwaltney and Bunkley Peanut Factory. Caption reads: "Sorting Peanuts, Gwaltney & Bunkley Peanut Factory, Smithfield, WVA." |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ... |
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| Description: | A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Men are loading braids of hemp into wagons drawn by oxen. |
| Date: | 11 29 1908 |
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| Description: | Men working on pulling the boat "Fish Hawk" out of the water. One man is kneeling in front of the boat and looking at the camera. A man in the background i... |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man driving a McCormick-Deering tractor to install a telephone pole on a city block. Other men are standing at the front of the ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1960 |
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| Description: | Charles Henriksen, Baraboo, is shown laying floor tile in the new Samuel Gompers Elementary School under construction at 1502 Wyoming Way on the northeast ... |
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