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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: | 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: | 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: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A man operates a horse-drawn corn binder in a field while others load stalks into wagons. A silo and two barns are in the background. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in a horse-drawn wagon as corn stalks are loaded from a field. |
| 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: | Slightly elevated view of workers laying railroad tracks in a field of sisal on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Leaves stacked at... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker loading stacks of bundled sisal leaves on a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Train l... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a large auger to dig a hole for installing telephone poles. A truck is parked nearby, used for installing the poles. The sign on the side... |
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