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Loading Sisal Leaves
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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 out in the field."
1949
International Harvester Company
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Harvesting Sisal Leaves
1949
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 load of sisal leaves are being readied for ...
Train Load of Sisal Leaves
1949
A shipment of sisal leaves at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "A train load of sisal leaves coming into the decorticating plant for processing."
Harvesting Sisal Leaves
1949
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 the track are now being loaded on the tra...
Worker Loading Rail Car with Sisal Leaves
1949
A worker loads bundled leaves on to a rail or tram car in the middle of a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Loading narrow gauge cars with ...
Tractor Train Carrying Bundled Sisal Leaves
1949
A worker stands next to a tractor train on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Tractor train of leaves ready to leave the field and be hauled to the decort...
Workers Laying Tracks on Sisal Plantation
1949
Slightly elevated view of workers laying railroad tracks in a field of sisal on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba.
