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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: | 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: | 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: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a cowboy hat is using hooks on the end of a chain to move a bale of sisal fiber on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. A curved t... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men load logs from a clearing onto the bed of an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special truck owned by the Johnson-Manville Corporation. The truck had a 1... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men carry fiber on their shoulders onto a wooden wharf. The fiber, probably from manila plants, is also piled near a building in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | International D-2 truck used by the Home and Telegraph Company. A man on a telephone pole is dressed in a suit and tie. The D-2 truck had a 113-inch wheel ... |
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| Description: | View of the steamboat Mendota under construction. A number of men, and one young child, are standing and posing with the boat. In the background is ... |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards a group of men standing near and on a rock face an a cliff above a river. Identified as probably the quarry connected t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across field towards men loading bundles of hemp onto railroad transport cars. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, one in the driver's seat of the D-300 M.T. truck, and the other carrying a metal trash bin, on a residential street. The truck is used by the Refu... |
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