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Union Gunboat

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Description: View from a distance of a side-wheel Union gunboat.
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Railroad Car and Engine Ferry

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Description: View of a barge transporting railroad cars and an engine across a river. Several men are on the barge, including one on an overhead structure. Text on phot...
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Dock Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a dock scene, where workers are preparing bales of cotton for loading. A steamship and a tugboat are nearby. More ships and the shoreline ...
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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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Pepper Picking

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Description: A group of men, women and children in a field. Caption reads: "Picking peppers for Green Heart Tabasco Sauce, New Iberia, LA."
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Unloading Sugar Cane

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Description: A view of a crane unloading sugar cane onto boxcars on a track at the Sugar House. Several men and two horses pulling a wagon are on the right.
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: A view of men and women loading sugar cane onto the carrier conveying it into the sugar house. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane Onto Carrier Conveying It...
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Barellis Concrete Works

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Description: Workers stand in a wooded area around blocks of concrete from Barellis Concrete Works. Caption reads: "Barellis Concrete Works, Covington, LA."
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Men Shaking Hands over Contract

Date: 04 1913
Description: Professor Perry Holden and Governor Luther Egbert Hall shake hands over a contract to grow 100,000,000 bushels of corn in Louisiana in 1913. A group of men...
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Men around Water Pump

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Description: A group of men wearing hats gathered around a water pump. Scaffolding surrounds the operation and a large pulley is visible. Text on image reads "Largest f...
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: Men and women cutting sugar cane by hand in a field. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane, Morgan City, LA."

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