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Photograph

Transporting Parcels on Windsled

Date: 1954
Description: Elmer Nelson sorting through boxes of goods being transported on the "Dream Sled" windsled.
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Train Load of Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: A shipment of sisal leaves at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "A train load of sisal leaves coming into t...
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Loading Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
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...
Photograph

Worker Loading Rail Car with Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
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...
Photograph

Workers Laying Tracks on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of workers laying railroad tracks in a field of sisal on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba.
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Harvesting Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
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...
Photograph

Harvesting Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
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...
Photograph

Boats and Barges On the Mississippi

Date: 1943
Description: View across railroad tracks along the shorline of the Mississippi River towards the stern wheeled steamboat General Allen towing barges upriver at L...
Photograph

Delivering Flour

Date: 
Description: Delivering flour to Berlin on barges.
Postcard

Depot and Train

Date: 08 28 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Depot and Train, Spring Gren [sic], Wis." A train station with the depot on the left and a locomotive on the right. Adults and childr...

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