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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man operates a balling machine while another handles spools of binder twine. The men may have been working at the McCormick twine mill in Chicago. |
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| Description: | A Philippine Islands man sits in a cart drawn by several water buffalo. The man may have worked in International Harvester's sisal and twine operation. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ... |
| 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: | 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of baled sisal stacked in a field alongside a dirt road. Several structures and a railroad cars are on a hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Sisal combing machines inside an International Harvester twine mill, possibly at McCormick Works in Chicago. |
| Date: | 07 28 1910 |
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| Description: | Men use a pulley to raise bales of sisal from the ground of a warehouse to the top of a pile of stacked bales. Others use dollies to wheel in additional ba... |
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