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Managers at Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Three managers in an office on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Reading from left to right-Mr. Karn, Mr. Heath...
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Mill Pond Plantation

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Description: A view of the old mill at the Mill Pond Plantation, with a man standing on a stool with a full bag over his shoulder and a horse and wagon in front of the ...
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Young Man with P&O Planter at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young African-American man sitting on a P&O planter pulled by mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
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"The House Jeff Built"

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Description: Exterior view of Brierfield, a plantation bought by Jefferson Davis in 1835, after he fought in the Mexican War. After the Civil War he bought Beauvoir, a ...
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The United States of North America: with the British and Spanish Territories, According to the Treaty, of 1784

Date: 1785
Description: Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th...
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Manila Plantation

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of people posing in front of a stone wall at a Manila plantation at the edge of a field with horses.
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Man with Cart with Harvested Manila

Date: 1900
Description: Man on horse-drawn cart, on railroad tracks. The cart is filled with harvested manila. Long, low buildings are in the background on the left behind a fence...
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Man Using Farmall on Sugar Cane Plantation

Date: 05 21 1936
Description: Rear view of man driving a Farmall tractor in a field. Used by the Kiluea Plantation, Island of Kauai. It is called an Australia Spinner, mounted on a Farm...
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Man Driving a Farmall M Tractor with 4 Row Cultivator

Date: 1939
Description: View from front of a man driving a Farmall M tractor with a 4 row cultivator in a field near Greenwood on the D.D. Weir plantation. There are small buildin...
Photograph

Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "L.C. Wilson, Dundee, Miss. has no trouble obtaining lumber ...

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