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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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Boy with Dog Pulling Wagon

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Description: Three small children with a wagon drawn by a dog.
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Pasture Hillside with Cart

Date: 05 30 1965
Description: Pasture hillside with 2-wheeled cart and a tree in the foreground.
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Family in Yard with Carriage

Date: 1878
Description: Family in yard with carriage with large stone house behind that has shutters closed. The house was built in 1845. Harmon J. Hill was the first supervisor o...
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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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Methodist Evangelical Church

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Description: Exterior view of the Church. The building features double doors, a belfry, and a steeple with a cross. There is a cart parked in the yard in the lower-righ...
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The Railroad Section Gang

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Description: Five men known as the Railroad Section Gang pose together on a handcar on railroad tracks. They traveled on handcars and repaired tracks. Standing second f...
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Group of People and Horses with Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men, children, women and horses posing with farm equipment in front of farm buildings, a farmhouse, and a windmill. A man is posing on a McCormick...
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C.R. Monroe and N.L. Ellis

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Description: Three photographer's wagons, two owned by C.R. Monroe and the other by N.L. Ellis, in front of tents in the countryside. Two men and a woman are posing sta...
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C.R. Monroe, Traveling Photographer

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Description: Man displaying two horses in front of a photographer's wagon that says "C.R. Monroe, Traveling Photographer." Two women, one holding a photograph, are pose...
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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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Children by Roadside and Horse-Drawn Carriage

Date: 1975
Description: Two young children are standing and watching a man driving an enclosed horse-drawn carriage on a gravel road. The carriage had originally been used to tran...

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