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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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The Rock River Dam with the Woolen Mills building in the background. Caption reads: "Rock River Dam, Jefferson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a woolen mill with an advertisement sign for Patton's Sun Proof-Paints in the front. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company, established in 1890 by George Fairfield. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man operates a balling machine while another handles spools of binder twine. The men may have been working at the McCormick twine mill in Chicago. |
| 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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior office view showing Frank James Harwood, General Manager of Appleton Woolen Mills. Harwood became general manager in 1882 and served as the compa... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers stand with piles of sisal fiber used in the production of binder twine. The fiber is fed into spreading machines on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the weighing and sacking room at the McCormick Twine Mill. A scale is standing in the background at right. White sheets are hanging in t... |
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