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• Cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company land, vicinity of Bethlehem, St. Croix (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Sugar cane land, Yabucoa Valley? Puerto Rico (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Harvesting sugar cane in a burned field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico. Burning the sugar cane gets rid of the dense leaves and makes cutting the unharmed stalks easier (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Sugar cane fields on the north-west part of the island, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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