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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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 09 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power house from the southwest showing progress of the brickwork. Two railroad cars are standing on the railroad extension. Workers ar... |
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| Description: | View of a chain gang from the front window of a car. |
| 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: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still from the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Rea... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| 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: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers lay a pipeline in a field using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and sideboom. Original caption states: "Jones & Hannahan." |
| 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... |
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