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New Orleans Composite

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Description: Composite of views showing the French market, sugar refinery and sugar sheds, fishing boats, steamer unloading bananas, and picking and cutting sugar cane ...
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana."
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Sugar Scabs

Date: 08 16 1955
Description: Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on stri...
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Worker Harassment

Date: 06 1955
Description: Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai...
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Children on the Picket Line

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t...
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Boiling Vats at Sugar Mill

Date: 1915
Description: Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses.
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Farmall MV on Farm

Date: 1943
Description: The caption for this photograph states that this Farmall MV tractor is "shown at work on the 2800-acre Triangle Farm near McCall, Louisiana, some 1800 acre...
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MEC&MC Type "AO" Crane in Sugar Refining Operation

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company type "AO" crane equipped with three trolleys in the American Sugar Refining Co. Two men are in the cab. Th...
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Harvesting Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural laborers harvesting sugar cane.
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: A group of agricultural workers cutting sugar cane, possibly in Morgan City. In the foreground, a young man sits on a pile of sugar cane, chewing on cane s...
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: Several agricultural workers cutting sugar cane by hand. Caption reads: "Sugar Cane Cutters, Morgan City, LA."
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: A group of agricultural workers, mostly women, cutting sugar cane by hand. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane."
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: A group of agricultural workers cutting sugar cane.
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural workers loading sugar cane onto a cart pulled by two donkeys. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane, Morgan City, LA."
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural workers loading sugar cane onto a horse-driven wagon. Two men on horseback are nearby. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane."
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Weighing Sugar Cane

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Description: A cart full of sugar cane being weighed. A man sits on the horse-drawn cart which is parked near a shack. A woman is behind the horses. Caption reads: "Wei...
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Unloading Sugar Cane

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Description: View of several men unloading a barge of sugar cane with a crane-like tool. A river and dock area are in the background. Caption reads: "Unloading Sugar Ca...
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: View of a crane being used to load sugar cane. Several men are visible nearby. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane, Lafayette, LA."
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: A group of agricultural laborers cutting sugar cane by hand. In the foreground, a young man sits on a pile of harvested sugar cane, chewing on cane sugar. ...
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Young Man Riding a Mule

Date: 1900
Description: A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane.

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