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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
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Philippine Workers Transport Fibre using Water Buffalo

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Description: Workers transporting twine fibre (fiber) using water buffalo and a wooden cart in the Philippines. The fibre was likely used by International Harvester fo...
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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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Ole Wettlesen Barnyard

Date: 1874
Description: View of the Ole Wettlesen barnyard. A man is standing and holding a pail in the center near a lineback cow. People, cattle, sheep, horses, a barn, haysta...
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Men in Field Pointing at Livestock

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Description: Two men are in a field in the foreground, one sitting in a carriage, one standing next to it, and both men pointing to the background. There we see cows, h...
Poster

International Power Advertising Poster

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for International industrial equipment, including crawler tractors (TracTracTors), industrial tractors and shop mules. Includes photo il...
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Mule Drawn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella...
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
Description: Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onions

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: An elderly, bearded man hauls a giant onion using a dolly. The man is wearing a black hat and white work gloves. The background shows the side of a barn....
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Horse-Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left.
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Factory Workers at Chattanooga Works

Date: 1932
Description: Factory workers and long wheeled carts filled with implement parts at the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Chattanooga Works

Date: 1930
Description: Factory workers working at tables, and long wheeled carts full of implement parts at the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Factory Workers at Chattanooga Works

Date: 1930
Description: Factory workers working at tables, and long wheeled carts full of implement parts at the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Horse-Drawn Binder and Buggy in Field

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer operates a horse-drawn grain binder in a field while another man in work clothes looks on. Two men in dress clothes sit in a buggy in the same fie...
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Workers and Foremen (?) Posing in Field with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt...
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Exterior of Magdeburg Branch House

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior of International Harvester's Magdeburg branch house in Germany, with trucks, a tractor pulling three loaded carts, and a horse-drawn wagon piled w...
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Loading Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
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...
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Workers Laying Tracks on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
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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Harvesting Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Leaves stacked at...

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