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Filter: Creator Name of International Harvester Company
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester technical manual. The cartoon depicts a repair man dropping a pair of pliers on the shelf of an open, personified r... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Engineer and fireman on a train carrying International Harvester binder twine ("a trainload of twine") to Lincoln, Nebraska. Original caption reads: "Engin... |
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| Description: | Marilyn Schultz of International Harvester's Lincoln office models a sweater made of twine as part of a district office promotional event. A sign above rea... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man hangs on to the side of a train from a ladder and waves his hand. Original caption reads: "Giving his engineer the 'highball' upon arrival of the 25-... |
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| Description: | Women wearing straw hats spread sisal fibers out to dry on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are s... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers drying fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Distributing fiber to dry from the trucks." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of workers load fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The dry fiber is being loaded for transporti... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Female workers wearing straw hats spread fiber out to dry at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Native women are... |
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| Description: | Manager's house on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "View of the manager's home on the IH plantation in Cuba. T... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Racks of fiber drying at an Internatioal Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "In the foreground can be seen the fiber drying racks ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Several men feed sisal leaves into the decorticating machine, most likely at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Here t... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory workers unload leaves onto a decorticator elevator, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Unload... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory workeres help feed sisal leaves into a decorticating machine, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory worker with a straw hat oversees sisal fibers as they pass out of a decorticating machine. possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cub... |
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| Description: | Factory worker hangs sisal fiber over a railing, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "The fiber as it comes ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats talk on the porch outside an office building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory workers loading bales of fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading the weighed bales onto the ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the homes provided for management at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. |
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