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U.S. Sugar Co. & Factory, Madison, Wis.

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Description: View across field towards a sugar factory, with four smokestacks in the background. Railroad cars are on railroad tracks along the front of the building.
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Park Hotel Display Window

Date: 06 02 1931
Description: Park Hotel, 22 S. Carroll Street, "Sea Island Sugar Co." display window showing various sizes of sugar packages and products.
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Burned Sugar Refinery

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: The remains of a sugar refinery in Moscow. Captioned: "The furnaces of the sugar refinery at Moscow. Notice the trenches on Hill 108."
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Moscow Refinery and Brewery

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across field of the remains of a Moscow Brewery and Sugar Refinery. Captioned: "Moscow — Hill 108, with ruins of sugar refinery and brewery. Boche tre...
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Ruins of Moscou Sugar Refinery

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Sugar refinery and forest in France left in ruins. Captioned: "Ruins of the Moscou sugar refinery. It was the largest in France, we are told."
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Sugar Factory

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Description: A steam locomotive moves along a set of railroad tracks near a sugar beet processing plant with a tall smokestack. There are several small outbuildings in ...
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MEC&MC Type "AO" Crane in Sugar Refining Operation

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company type "AO" crane equipped with three trolleys in the American Sugar Refining Co. Two men are in the cab. Th...
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MEC&MC Type "AO" Crane in Sugar Refining Operation

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company type "AO" crane equipped with three trolleys in the American Sugar Refining Co.
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: A view of men and women loading sugar cane onto the carrier conveying it into the sugar house. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane Onto Carrier Conveying It...
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Sugar Mill

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Description: The interior of a sugar mill in Havana, Cuba, with a few men standing on scaffolding between the machinery.
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"Sugar Means Ships"

Date: 1917
Description: Leaflet urging citizens to consume fewer sweetened beverages. The drawing shows a man and a woman seated at a soda shop.
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Harvesting Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural laborers harvesting sugar cane.
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Aline W. Hazard visits a Sorghum Mill

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Description: Aline W. Hazard, WHA Homemakers program director, visits a sorghum mill in Prairie du Chien for her on-the-spot reporting of unusual Wisconsin industries.
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana."
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Farmall MV on Farm

Date: 1943
Description: The caption for this photograph states that this Farmall MV tractor is "shown at work on the 2800-acre Triangle Farm near McCall, Louisiana, some 1800 acre...
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New Orleans Composite

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Description: Composite of views showing the French market, sugar refinery and sugar sheds, fishing boats, steamer unloading bananas, and picking and cutting sugar cane ...
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Several men loading sugar cane bales into train cars using a hoist. The text "USS Corp. 24" (partially obscured) is painted on one of the train cars.
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural workers loading sugar cane onto a horse-driven wagon. Two men on horseback are nearby. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane."
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Hawaii Plantation Scene

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Description: View of a sugar cane plantation. Several men are on horseback while others stand nearby. On the other side of a fence are two locomotives. Harvested sugar ...
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Unloading Sugar Cane

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Description: A view of a crane unloading sugar cane onto boxcars on a track at the Sugar House. Several men and two horses pulling a wagon are on the right.

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