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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely". |
| Date: | 12 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul a long train of carts holding bundles of fiber, possibly for burlap. Another man is lo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man rides on the back of a train of carts loaded with burlap sacks as it enters the Chase Bag Company warehouse from the steamship dock. |
| Date: | 05 18 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul carts loaded with what appear to be bundles of burlap fabric. There is an industrial b... |
| Date: | 05 05 1926 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by Ascher's 100% Pure Wool Knit Goods Company parked in front of a building marked: "Gerosa Haulage & Warehouse." One man is si... |
| Date: | 09 19 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a woolen mill, as seen from across a river and dam. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a warehouse beside bales of manila fiber used to make twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across river of a large mill or factory complex, possibly the Island Woolen Mill. In front of the mill is a roofed boathouse, with a canoe hanging fro... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a store with bolts and remnants of fabric for sale. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A young boy and a man are shown among the machinery in the carding room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man pulls fiber from the leaves of a manila plant in the Philippine Islands. Other men look on over his shoulder, and a dwelling or other structure is in... |
| 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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