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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Interior office view showing Frank James Harwood, General Manager of Appleton Woolen Mills. Harwood became general manager in 1882 and served as the compa... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men feeding fiber into manufacturing machines standing on a large factory floor with a high ceiling, many exposed ceiling beams, windows, and brick walls. ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers stacking bundles of McCormick binder twine in a warehouse, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sisal or henequen fiber streaming from machinery at a factory. A group of men are working in the background. Likely the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "Knotter men" work at tables in the McCormick Twine Mill. Windows line one wall of the brick room, and a system of belt-driven machinery is arranged along ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers feeding sisal or manila fiber into machines, most likely at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a balling machine at the McCormick Twine Mill to wind twine onto wooden spools. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses a spreader machine to work with sisal fiber during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. White sheets are hangi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers stand with piles of sisal fiber used in the production of binder twine. The fiber is fed into spreading machines on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the weighing and sacking room at the McCormick Twine Mill. A scale is standing in the background at right. White sheets are hanging in t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men feed sisal fiber into a combing machine during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two male factory workers look on as sisal fiber extends out of a finisher and piles in metal containers at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men open bales of sisal fiber at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a Deering Harvester Company brochure for twine. The cover reads: "The Original Spinners," and "The World's Greatest Spinners, Deeri... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two male employees are feeding manila fiber into manufacturing machines at McCormick Works. More men are standing in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad cars are on railroad tracks running along the buildings under construction. Men are wor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad cars are on tracks in the foreground. A large smokestack is in the center. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad tracks are in the foreground below. A partially built smokestack is in the center. A number of c... |
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