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| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harveste... |
| Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Man operating an experimental International Harvester cotton picker in a cotton field on the Hopson Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Two automobil... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Co... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Farm buildings stand in the distance at the Hopson Planting Company's plantation. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Piles of cotton fill a storage bin at the Hopson Planting Company plantation. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation. |
| Date: | 06 1931 |
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| Description: | African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Cuba plantation. Sisal fibers are shown here drying in the sun. The sun also ten... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Man inspects sisal plants on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man mows the front lawn of a manager's home on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The house belonged to "Mr. Heath." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A long line of bundled sisal leaves on carts outside an International Harvester Plant. The processing factory was located on an International Harvester pla... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers bundle and transport fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundling the dry fiber or transporting ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker stands next to a tractor train on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Tractor train of leaves ready to l... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man carries two bundles of leaves on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundled leaves being carried out to t... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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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