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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine. |
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| Description: | African American workers picking cotton in a cotton field. Possibly in Mississippi. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field, while workers are gathering sheaves of grain. The farmer is holding a raised switch. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Women wearing straw hats spread sisal fibers out to dry on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are s... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of workers load fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The dry fiber is being loaded for transporti... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Female workers wearing straw hats spread fiber out to dry at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory workers unload leaves onto a decorticator elevator, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Unload... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory worker with a straw hat oversees sisal fibers as they pass out of a decorticating machine. possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cub... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory worker hangs sisal fiber over a railing, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The fiber as it comes ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Several workers bundle fiber in a building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Nearby, there is a large wagon on tracks loaded with fib... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker loads sisal leaves onto a small train car at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading leaves on the train car... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker loads bundled leaves on to a rail or tram car in the middle of a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photogra... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man carries two bundles of leaves on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundled leaves being carried out to t... |
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