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Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
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Cotton Market

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A group of wagons filled with cotton bales in the street at market.
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Man Driving Wagon with Team of Mules

Date: 02 19 1915
Description: A man is driving a team of mules pulling a wagon down a commercial street.
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Deering Reaper

Date: 1914
Description: A farmer driving four mules pulling a Deering reaper.
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Tall-tale Postcard: Caught With the Goods

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a dwarf wearing a top hat driving a cart, drawn by a mule, filled with giant eggs. The dwarf is wearing a suit and a top hat. The mule is...
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Push Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A farmer uses a team of six mules to power a push binder through a field. The farmer is shaded by an umbrella. The advertisement on the umbrella reads: "Ha...
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Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1917
Description: A farmer is using a large team of mules and horses to pull a harvester-thresher (combine) through a field.
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Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A man leads two mules pulling a McCormick grain binder.
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Man on P&O Cultivator

Date: 1919
Description: Man on a P&O cultivator pulled by two horses or mules in a field.
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Mule Train Outside Mineral Water Factory

Date: 1912
Description: Two men fill the packs of mules lined up outside a building which has a tiled mission roof. The side of the building is labeled: "Fabrica de Aguas Minerale...
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Stalk Cutter

Date: 1915
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving two mules who are pulling a stalk cutter across a field of what is possibly tobacco or corn. There are t...
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"One-Mule Agriculture Method"

Date: 1914
Description: A group of farmers use mules to plow a field near a dirt road. A farm building and electrical or telephone poles are in the background.
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Man with Plow and Mule

Date: 1914
Description: A man is using a mule to pull a walking plow through a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance.
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Plowing Around Stumps

Date: 02 24 1915
Description: Left side view of Earle Morris using a walking plow pulled by a mule in a field pitted with tree stumps.
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Boy with Mule and Plow

Date: 1915
Description: Three-quarter rear view from right of a boy with a mule and walking plow near a tree stump in a field.
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Man Smoothing Dirt Road

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on a wooden grader while driving two mules along a dirt road. Beside the road behind him are cows in a fenced-in f...
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Man on Land Leveler

Date: 1915
Description: Man standing on a grader pulled by a team of mules along a dirt road. Cows, a fence and farm buildings are in the background.
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U.S. Mail Sleigh

Date: 1918
Description: Two men sit at the reins of a horse-drawn United States mail sleigh which ran from Sturgeon Bay to Egg Harbor. Another man is kneeling inside the sleigh ne...
Magazine or Periodical

Tractor Tilling Cartoon

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cartoon entitled :"A Hint to The Sceptic" featuring a conversation between a farmer and a mule, intended to entice farmers into trying Smith Form-a-Tractor...
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Film Still of Picnic in "The Clod Hopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of a picnic in "The Clod Hopper". Spectators are at a mule-riding attraction. There is a man on a mule in a enclosure, while a second man in a c...

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