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| Description: | Rows of large spinning machines can be seen in the card room of Massachusetts Mill, which produced 1/7 of all textiles in Georgia. Caption reads: "No. 3 Sp... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of women working in the spinning room of the Pioneer Cotton Mill, which was in full operation by 1910, with W. H. Coyle as president. Caption... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Four girls gather on the bank of a creek outside Ashley-Bailey Silk Mill. |
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| Description: | A hand-weaver sits by his loom in Paterson, a city that dominated the weaving of high quality broad silk and ribbon in 1913. |
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| Description: | A group of women work at a loom outdoors. Caption reads: "Drawn Workers, Brownsville, Texas." |
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| Description: | A view of the Massachusetts Cotton Mill buildings, including the cloth room and the boiler rooms. |
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| Description: | A page from a Greenville Mills employee brochure showing employees enjoying themselves playing baseball, playing at a family picnic, and smoking. |
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| Description: | Women, men and children pose on the front porch of the main house. Men and women occupy the rocking chairs that are lined up on the left along the porch ra... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Poster for use in McCormick-Deering dealerships advertising the arrival of 600-foot manila brand twine. The text on the poster reads: "Prices now the lowes... |
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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. |
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