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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...
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 ...
Loading Sisal Fiber
January 22, 1910
Men use donkeys to pull carts loaded with sisal fiber along railroad tracks on a wharf at Progreso, Yucatan. The fiber is being loaded onto or off of steamboats docked at the wharf.
Sisal Entering Decorticating Machine
1949
Factory workeres help feed sisal leaves into a decorticating machine, possibly at International Harvester's sisal plantation in Cuba.
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...
Decorticating Machine
1949
Several men feed sisal leaves into the decorticating machine, most likely at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Here the leaves are fed into the decorticating m...
