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Processing Twine at Twine Mill
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A female factory worker creates balls of twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "This scene shows a battery of balling machines making baler twine. Similar machines are used for balling binder twine. As a quality check, every ball of twine produced contains the machine operator's name."
1948
International Harvester Company
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W012Y39
WHi 59578
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Woman Employee Binding Twine
1948
A female factory worker creates balls of twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "This scene shows a battery of balling machines making baler twine. Similar machines ar...
Assembling Balls of Twine at Twine Mill
1948
A female factory worker assembles a ball of twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "Tucking in the end of the twine after the criss-cross cover has been put on a ball ...
Processing Sisal in Twine Mill
1948
A female factory worker tends a machine to produce binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill.
Stacking Bales of Sisal Fiber at McCormick Twine Mill
1948
Factory workers stack bales of twine in a warehouse at the McCormick Twine Mill.
Packing and Weighing Twine
1948
Factory workers weigh and pack binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "Weighing, sacking and bale lashing binder twine."
Processing Sisal Fiber at Twine Mill
1948
Factory workers work with machines to turn sisal fiber into binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill.
