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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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Buildings at a Logging Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Buildings at a logging camp or sawmill operated by the International Harvester Company. A horse is in the right foreground.
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Factory Workers Pushing a Cart

Date: 01 19 1916
Description: Two men demonstrate the "old way" of hauling using a push cart loaded with 2,200 pounds. The men are likely factory workers at Osborne Works (also known as...
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Factory Worker Hauling Carts of Parts

Date: 01 13 1916
Description: Factory working demonstrating the "new way" of hauling by pulling carts loaded with 16,000 pounds of parts using a shop mule. The man is most likely a work...
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Cars of Bagasse at Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Several cars of bagasse outside a processing factory at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Cars of bagasse ...
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Bundled Sisal Leaves at the Decorticating Plant

Date: 1949
Description: A long line of bundled sisal leaves on carts outside an International Harvester Plant. The processing factory was located on an International Harvester pla...
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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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Elevated View of Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view looking down at a group of men posing on the sidewalk in front of a dealership. There is a horse-drawn carriage in front. Signs in the window...
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Dump Rake Outdoors in Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 05 27 1909
Description: Dump rake, with men chatting in yard on the right. Other men are working in the background on the left near a brick factory building.
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Dump Rake Outdoors in Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 05 27 1909
Description: Dump rake, with men chatting in yard on the right. Other men are working in the background on the left near a brick factory building.
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Threshers Parts and Feeding Mechanism

Date: 06 12 1912
Description: Threshers parts, and a feeding mechanism on a wood pushcart, outdoors in the yard at McCormick Works. Wheels are stacks in the background.
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Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 11 18 1912
Description: Elevated view of yard showing railroad tracks and plant construction. Large piles of sand, and or gravel, are below in the foreground.
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Binder Mounted on Transport Truck

Date: 10 03 1914
Description: Binder mounted on transport truck outdoors in factory yard. The legs have white marks drawn over them.
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Gun Cart with Guns and Ammunition

Date: 03 04 1918
Description: Details of loaded guns and ammunition on a Gun Cart outdoors in factory yard, with a brick building in the background.
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Gun Cart with Guns and Ammunition

Date: 03 04 1918
Description: Details of loaded guns and ammunition on a Gun Cart outdoors in factory yard, with a brick building in the background.
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Gun Cart with Guns and Ammunition

Date: 03 04 1918
Description: Details of loaded guns and ammunition on a Gun Cart outdoors in factory yard, with a brick building in the background.
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Gun Cart at McCormick Works

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Gun Cart outdoors in factory yard. There is a brick factory building in the background.

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