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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: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
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| Description: | German farm couple returning from the fields, crossing railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 05 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Carl Seamonson plowing a field with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and plow. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Hough HE Payloader loading snow into a truck. The HE was built by Frank G. Hough Company, a Libertyville, Illinois, manufacturer of construction equipment. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| Date: | 04 18 1926 |
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| Description: | A worker uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to pull a platform along tracks in a railroad yard outside a factory or other type of industrial building. |
| 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 worker stands next to a tractor train on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Tractor train of leaves ready to l... |
| 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: | 10 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Two men from the Lexington Hardware Corporation use a McCormick-Deering industrial 10-20 tractor to haul a wagon loaded with boxes of metal shingles. A tra... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| 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: | 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: | 02 26 1915 |
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| Description: | A brass band led by W.F. Casey, standing at left, welcomes four Alabama Crop Diversification Campaign speakers at a train depot. A train and several buildi... |
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