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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory workeres help feed sisal leaves into a decorticating machine, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory worker with a straw hat oversees sisal fibers as they pass out of a decorticating machine. possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cub... |
| 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 wearing hats talk on the porch outside an office building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory workers loading bales of fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading the weighed bales onto the ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Man inspects sisal plants on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man mows the front lawn of a manager's home on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The house belonged to "Mr. Heath." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Several cars of bagasse outside a processing factory at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Cars of bagasse ... |
| 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: | Workers compress and bundle fibers in a processing plant at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Worker is shown h... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | Worker loading stacks of bundled sisal leaves on a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Train l... |
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