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Osborne Twine Mill Workers Comb Fibre

Date: 1910
Description: Workers using a large machine to comb twine fibre (fiber) - the first process preparatory to spinning - at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. Th...
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Workers Process Sisal in Philippines

Date: 1948
Description: Workers processing sisal at a factory in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Company as part of its twine producti...
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Unloading Leaves onto Decorticator Elevator

Date: 1949
Description: Factory workers unload leaves onto a decorticator elevator, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Unload...
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Fiber Passing out of Decorticating Machine

Date: 1949
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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Sisal Fiber Processing

Date: 1949
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 ...
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Weighing a Bale of Sisal Fiber

Date: 1949
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...
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Compressing Bales of Fiber

Date: 1949
Description: Workers compress and bundle fibers in a processing plant at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Worker is shown h...
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R.E. Cox Cotton Gin

Date: 11 30 1937
Description: Exterior view of a cotton gin owned by R.E. Cox. Two men stand beneath the building's overhang and a mule or horse-drawn wagon stands to the left of the bu...

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