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African American Farm Laborer at Stovall's Plantation

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall.
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Farm buildings stand in the distance at the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Drying Sisal Fibers in Cuba

Date: 1949
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...
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Sisal Fiber Drying in Cuba

Date: 1949
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 ...
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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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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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Bundling and Transporting Fiber

Date: 1949
Description: Workers bundle and transport fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundling the dry fiber or transporting ...
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Man with Cart with Harvested Manila

Date: 1900
Description: Man on horse-drawn cart, on railroad tracks. The cart is filled with harvested manila. Long, low buildings are in the background on the left behind a fence...
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Man Driving a Farmall M Tractor with 4 Row Cultivator

Date: 1939
Description: View from front of a man driving a Farmall M tractor with a 4 row cultivator in a field near Greenwood on the D.D. Weir plantation. There are small buildin...
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Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Sawmills — UD-14A Power Unit." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "L.C. Wilson, Dundee, Miss. has no trouble obtaining lumber ...

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