Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View of a spreading machine in an International Harvester twine mill, possibly at McCormick Works in Chicago. Fiber, possibly sisal, is piled on the floor ... |
Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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Description: | Men use donkeys to pull carts loaded with sisal fiber along railroad tracks on a wharf at Progreso, Yucatan. The fiber is being loaded onto or off of steam... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Elevated view of baled sisal stacked in a field alongside a dirt road. Several structures and a railroad cars are on a hill in the background. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Sisal combing machines inside an International Harvester twine mill, possibly at McCormick Works in Chicago. |
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: | 1920 |
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Description: | Hemp or sisal fiber piles on the floor of International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill as it is processed through spreading machines. The mill was locate... |
Date: | 1932 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deerings Big Ball twine. The poster features an illustration of a man using a binder in a farm field, along with insets of... |
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Description: | View of the west bank of the Rock River from a bridge. The view includes the manufacturing plants of Jefferson Woolen Mills, incorporated April 2, 1856. |
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: | Female factory workers stand around long tables in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works Canvas Department. Canvas is piled in r... |
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: | 1913 |
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Description: | Rows of shacks, possibly company housing, identical in style and size, including thatched roofing. The shacks are likely part of a henequen or sisal planta... |
Date: | 05 20 1953 |
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Description: | Interior view of textile chemical laboratory at the new U.W. School of Home Economics west wing. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Cleo Holt posing for a portrait while holding a rope. |
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Description: | Young women pose in a hosiery factory where they are employed. |
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Description: | Skinner's Satin Mills stands alongside the Second Level Canal. The mill was founded in 1848. |
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Description: | The William Skinner and Sons Silk Mill, founded in 1848, stands along the left bank of a canal. A bridge crosses the water in the foreground. |
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Description: | View across an open field looking toward Bald Mountain Furniture Company and Angle Silk Mills Plant. |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | Female jute workers stand outdoors near a railroad north of Hanoi, rebuilt after bombing. |
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