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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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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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Harvesting Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loading stacks of bundled sisal leaves on a rail or tram car on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Train l...
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural workers loading sugar cane onto a cart pulled by two donkeys. Caption reads: "Loading Sugar Cane, Morgan City, LA."
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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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Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1915
Description: Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails.
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Loading Sisal Fiber

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Men use donkeys to pull carts loaded with sisal fiber along railroad tracks on a wharf at Progreso, Yucatan. The fiber is being loaded onto or off of steam...
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Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men are working with a horse-drawn mower and a horse-powered hay stacker in a field. Two men and a child are standing on a large stack of hay, and a horse-...
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Grain Binder in a Field

Date: 1902
Description: Men working in a field with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. A man is sitting nearby in a horse-drawn carriage.
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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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