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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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Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Date: 08 14 1929
Description: Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium foundation under construction. 1202 Northport Drive. J.P. Cullen, Contractor.
Book or Pamphlet

1972 International Camper Pickups

Date: 1972
Description: Front cover of advertising brochure for the 1972 line of International camper pickup trucks featuring the slogan: "When your camp goes with you." The cover...
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Weber Wagon and Two Mules

Date: 1920
Description: A man climbs onto a Weber wagon led by two mules parked in an area behind several buildings. Autombobiles are in the background. The text on the wagon read...
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Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street.
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Weighing Cotton

Date: 1920
Description: Men weigh(?) bales of cotton on a wooden platform, while other men load or unload bales onto a wagon drawn by mules.
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Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground.
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Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 1920
Description: Men lead two mules in hauling a wagon full of cotton bales near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform.
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Cotton Bales on Wagon

Date: 1920
Description: Two men place a bale of cotton on top of a pile on the back of a mule-drawn wagon. They are near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform...
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Children Riding Mules on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Four young boys ride mules in a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Agricultural laborers are in the background. Original caption...
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McCormick Binder in South Africa

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Men use a McCormick grain binder led by horses and mules to work in a field in Doornkloof, Moorressburg, South Africa.
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McCormick Binder in South African Field

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Rear view of a man using a team of mules and horses to lead a McCormick binder through a field in Malmesbury, South Africa. Another man is standing in fron...
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McCormick Binder in South African Field

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Rear view of man using a team of horses and mules to lead a McCormick grain binder through a field in DeLectus, Riebeek West, South Africa. In the far dist...
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Binder Teams in South African Field

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: Three-quarter view of men using teams of horses and mules to drive two McCormick grain binders through a field in DeLectus, Riebeek West, South Africa. In ...
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Mariscal Mine

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Description: Workers stand near an automobile and pack of mules in Mariscal Mine. The mine produced 1,400 flasks of mercury, 1/4 of the US production, between 1900 and ...
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Stalk Cutter

Date: 1915
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving two mules who are pulling a stalk cutter across a field of what is possibly tobacco or corn. There are t...
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Man with Plow and Mule

Date: 1914
Description: A man is using a mule to pull a walking plow through a farm field. Farm buildings are in the distance.
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Man Using Corn Cultivator

Date: 1926
Description: A man is using two mules to pull a corn cultivator through a field on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm.
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Fire Department Carts With Huge Water Barrels

Date: 
Description: Men steer mule-drawn Fire Department carts down a dirt road in Matamoros, Mexico. Several buildings stand in the background.
Magazine or Periodical

Tractor Tilling Cartoon

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cartoon entitled :"A Hint to The Sceptic" featuring a conversation between a farmer and a mule, intended to entice farmers into trying Smith Form-a-Tractor...

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