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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers inspecting strands of fibre (fiber) in a warehouse at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was owned by D.M. Osborne Com... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal fibre (fiber) at a factory or mill in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Comp... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Lula Lawrence, lsft, and Esther Gunderson combing hemp fibers. In the background two women are sorting hemp fiber bundles for rope and cordage during Worl... |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Two girls, holding turkey feathers, are watching the production line at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, where two women workers are plucking turkeys. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Female workers on the production line at Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, plucking turkeys. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory workers unload leaves onto a decorticator elevator, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Unload... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Several workers bundle fiber in a building on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Nearby, there is a large wagon on tracks loaded with fib... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a cowboy hat is using hooks on the end of a chain to move a bale of sisal fiber on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. A curved t... |
| Date: | 03 30 1939 |
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| Description: | A man sits on a stool to milk a cow by hand. The original caption reads: "Irwin L. Collum, Dousman, Wis. hired man milking for Thomas Ridgeman." |
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