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Red Pine Plantation

Date: 06 1948
Description: Ranger Jack Zimmerman in 10-year-old Red Pine Plantation near Blackwell in Nicolet National Forest.
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Workers Hanging Sisal in Yucatan(?)

Date: 1948
Description: Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C...
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Mechanical Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste...
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New Mechanical Cotton Picker

Date: 1942
Description: Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Co...
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Farm buildings stand in the distance at the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Cotton Storage Bin

Date: 1942
Description: Piles of cotton fill a storage bin at the Hopson Planting Company plantation.
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Sisal Fiber Drying in Cuba

Date: 1948
Description: International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Cuba plantation. Sisal fibers are shown here drying in the sun. The sun also ten...
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Drying Sisal Fibers in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Women wearing straw hats spread sisal fibers out to dry on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are s...
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Drying Sisal Fibers in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks."
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Loading Sisal Fiber in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: A group of workers load fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The dry fiber is being loaded for transporti...
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Spreading Sisal Fiber in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Female workers wearing straw hats spread fiber out to dry at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are...
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Manager's House on IH Cuban Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Manager's house on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "View of the manager's home on the IH plantation in Cuba. T...
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Sisal Fiber Drying in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Racks of fiber drying at an Internatioal Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "In the foreground can be seen the fiber drying racks ...
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Decorticating Machine

Date: 1949
Description: Several men feed sisal leaves into the decorticating machine, most likely at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Here t...
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Unloading Leaves onto Decorticator Elevator

Date: 1949
Description: Factory workers unload leaves onto a decorticator elevator, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Unload...
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Sisal Entering Decorticating Machine

Date: 1949
Description: Factory workeres help feed sisal leaves into a decorticating machine, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba.
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Fiber Passing out of Decorticating Machine

Date: 1949
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...
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Sisal Fiber Processing

Date: 1949
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 ...
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Office Building at IH Cuban Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Two men wearing hats talk on the porch outside an office building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba.

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