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Combing Sisal Fiber

Date: 1910
Description: Sisal combing machines inside an International Harvester twine mill, possibly at McCormick Works in Chicago.
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Women at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: Female factory workers handling fabric strips at McCormick Works.
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Spreading Machine at Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: View of a spreading machine in an International Harvester twine mill, possibly at McCormick Works in Chicago. Fiber, possibly sisal, is piled on the floor ...
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Female Factory Worker

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: A female factory worker balling binder twine with a machine, most likely at International Harvester's McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Fiber Processing at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1920
Description: Hemp or sisal fiber piles on the floor of International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill as it is processed through spreading machines. The mill was locate...
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McCormick Twine Mills

Date: 04 16 1937
Description: A man at McCormick Works Twine Mill stands in between various rows of machinery to inspect a ball of twine.
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Twine Manufacturing Machine

Date: 11 03 1906
Description: Twine manufacturing machine at McCormick Works.
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Machines at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Sisal (hennequen) fiber streaming from machines at the McCormick Twine Mill.
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McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 04 26 1939
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor.
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Combing Fibre

Date: 1905
Description: Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ...
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Men Spooling Twine at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers use a balling machine at the McCormick Twine Mill to wind twine onto wooden spools.
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Women Spooling Twine

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Works twine mill use machines to wind twine onto spools.
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McCormick Twine Mill Workers

Date: 1938
Description: Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Weighing and Sacking Room at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers in the weighing and sacking room at the McCormick Twine Mill. A scale is standing in the background at right. White sheets are hanging in t...
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Manufacturing Machines for Twine

Date: 1900
Description: Manufacturing machines for twine at McCormick Works.
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Man with Spreader Machine at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: A factory worker uses a spreader machine to work with sisal fiber during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. White sheets are hangi...
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Workers at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers feeding sisal or manila fiber into machines, most likely at the McCormick Twine Mill.
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Combing Machine at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Men feed sisal fiber into a combing machine during the production of binder twine at the McCormick Twine Mill.
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Men with Sisal Fiber Bales

Date: 1900
Description: Three men open bales of sisal fiber at the McCormick Twine Mill.
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Man Working at Machine

Date: 1925
Description: A man standing at a machine, in what is possibly the McCormick Works twine mill, handles bags, probably containing sisal to be made into twine.

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