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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... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City. |
| Date: | 08 1974 |
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| Description: | View down double set of railroad tracks towards a Milwaukee Road train, with the engineer about to board. Other men are standing in the background. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Five men known as the Railroad Section Gang pose together on a handcar on railroad tracks. They traveled on handcars and repaired tracks. Standing second f... |
| Date: | 08 1988 |
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| Description: | "The engineer waves as the steam locomotive bears down the track." |
| Date: | 09 22 1997 |
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| Description: | "In Lomira, a Kondex Corp. employee was killed when three derailed railcars plowed into the concrete block building in the background at 5:30 AM. Eleven of... |
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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: | Car number 557 of the Chicago Northwestern railroad at 7th Street. Eight train workers are standing on or around the train. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across field towards men loading bundles of hemp onto railroad transport cars. |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | A worker is driving a Plymouth "dinky" locomotive out of the entrance of a sand mine. One full car is behind the engine. |
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