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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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Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is picking up bundles of grain by hand, while another man is operating a horse-drawn grain binder. In the left background is a group of people in a s...
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The Result of Thrift and Energy

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional cards created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts Conrad Flicker and his family standing in ...

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