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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. |
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| Description: | Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Factory workers handle twine piled on wheeled carts at Hamilton Twine Mills. |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men use a lift to stack bales of bound fiber in a storage area, possibly at the McCormick Works twine mill. The company used sisal and hemp fiber to ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man standing at a machine, in what is possibly the McCormick Works twine mill, handles bags, probably containing sisal to be made into twine. |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | A factory worker loads bags of twine onto a conveyor belt, while another waits at the top of the pile to stack the twine in a storage space, possibly at th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men feeding fiber into manufacturing machines standing on a large factory floor with a high ceiling, many exposed ceiling beams, windows, and brick walls. ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1910 |
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| Description: | Men use a pulley to raise bales of sisal from the ground of a warehouse to the top of a pile of stacked bales. Others use dollies to wheel in additional ba... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female and male factory workers operating machines in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works. The canvas was likely used for grai... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers wear protective hair bonnets while working in a room where twine is wound, weighed, and inspected. The workers stand in a r... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers stacking bundles of McCormick binder twine in a warehouse, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sisal or henequen fiber streaming from machinery at a factory. A group of men are working in the background. Likely the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "Knotter men" work at tables in the McCormick Twine Mill. Windows line one wall of the brick room, and a system of belt-driven machinery is arranged along ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers feeding sisal or manila fiber into machines, most likely at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a balling machine at the McCormick Twine Mill to wind twine onto wooden spools. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses a spreader machine to work with sisal fiber during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. White sheets are hangi... |
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