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Workers Loading Sisal Leaves onto Tram Car

Date: 1900
Description: Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and...
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Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1915
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.
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Men Loading Hemp Plants

Date: 1910
Description: View across field towards men loading bundles of hemp onto railroad transport cars.

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