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Skioptikonbild med motiv från yrkesinspektionens undersökningar på olika arbetsplatser. Okänd sockerfabrik. Beredning av sockerbeta.

Skioptikonbild med motiv från yrkesinspektionens undersökningar på oli...

Skioptikonbild med motiv från yrkesinspektionens undersökningar på olika arbetsplatser. Okänd sockerfabrik. Beredning av sockerbeta.

As the tariff-war must end / Keppler.

As the tariff-war must end / Keppler.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam in a tree, chased there by the Russian Bear which is standing at the base of the tree; Uncle Sam has dropped his rifle labeled "U.S. Duty on Russian Sugar." Caption: Uncle Sam (to ... More

Theodore Roosevelt - Strenuous regrets, Political Cartoon

Theodore Roosevelt - Strenuous regrets, Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt holding an oversized "message" behind his back. He stands in front of a hook on the wall "Proofs," holding four sheets of paper: "No. 1 Beet petition," "No. 2 Conclusions Ways a... More

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said: "The children can thin the beets better than grown ups. We all work fourteen hours a day at times because when the beets is ready they has to be done. About twelve weeks is about all the children can work on thinning and topping. Some of them hoe a little. See Hine Report, Colorado Bee[t] Workers, July, 1915.  Location: Greeley [vicinity], Colorado.

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Sugar City, Colorado

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen yea...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3940. Hine no. 3941. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Utsikt från Sockerfabriken i Lidköping, med Hamnen, Skaraborgs Enskilda Bank och Vattentornet.

Utsikt från Sockerfabriken i Lidköping, med Hamnen, Skaraborgs Enskild...

Utsikt från Sockerfabriken i Lidköping, med Hamnen, Skaraborgs Enskilda Bank och Vattentornet.

Castle Coakley, Outbuilding, Castle Coakley, St. Croix, VI
Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

Ruins of Sugar Mill, New Symrna, Volusia County, Florida

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Jordberga Sockerfabrik exteriörer januari 1940, 14481.

Jordberga Sockerfabrik exteriörer januari 1940, 14481.

Jordberga Sockerfabrik exteriörer januari 1940, 14481.

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Indepe...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS MD-11 Building/structure dates: 1849

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Indepe...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS MD-11 Building/structure dates: 1849

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Indepe...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS MD-11 Building/structure dates: 1849

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Indepe...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS MD-11 Building/structure dates: 1849

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Sugar House (Refinery), Aliceanna & Chester Streets, Baltimore, Indepe...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS MD-11 Building/structure dates: 1849

Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Honouliuli Plain, near intersection of Renton Road & Park Row, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Honouliuli Plain, near inter...

Significance: Sugar plantations had a pivotal role in Hawaii's history. They were the main economic engines that fueled Hawaii's change from subsistence agriculture to a commodity-based system. Sugar plantati... More

Caneel Bay Plantation, Sugar Factory, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

Caneel Bay Plantation, Sugar Factory, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

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Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Cro...

Significance: Rust-op-Twist's long and troubled history as a sugar producing estate is typical of many other St. Croix plantations. An animal mill, and windmill, and a steam mill - representative of the evoluti... More

Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Cro...

Significance: Rust-op-Twist's long and troubled history as a sugar producing estate is typical of many other St. Croix plantations. An animal mill, and windmill, and a steam mill - representative of the evoluti... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

Significance: Although the building is now in ruins, a large collection of plantation records covering the period 1897-1926 has survived. Thus the manufacture of sugar can be examined from the perspective of a ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

Significance: Although the building is now in ruins, a large collection of plantation records covering the period 1897-1926 has survived. Thus the manufacture of sugar can be examined from the perspective of a ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

Significance: Although the building is now in ruins, a large collection of plantation records covering the period 1897-1926 has survived. Thus the manufacture of sugar can be examined from the perspective of a ... More

Kekaha Sugar Company, Sugar Mill Building, 8315 Kekaha Road, Kekaha, Kauai County, HI

Kekaha Sugar Company, Sugar Mill Building, 8315 Kekaha Road, Kekaha, K...

For information on the irrigation supply system, see HALS HI-22, Kekaha Ditch, Black Pipe Siphon. Significance: The Kekaha Sugar Company Sugar Mill is associated with the development and history of sugar in Haw... More

Kekaha Sugar Company, Sugar Mill Building, 8315 Kekaha Road, Kekaha, Kauai County, HI

Kekaha Sugar Company, Sugar Mill Building, 8315 Kekaha Road, Kekaha, K...

For information on the irrigation supply system, see HALS HI-22, Kekaha Ditch, Black Pipe Siphon. Significance: The Kekaha Sugar Company Sugar Mill is associated with the development and history of sugar in Haw... More

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...

Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...

Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...

Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...

Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...

Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Street, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Clifton Hill, Sugar Factory & Rum Distillery, South Central Str...

Significance: Estate Clifton Hill produced cane sugar and rum from its initial settlement in the early 1750s to about 1900. An animal mill was in use to crush sugar cane by 1754 and was replaced a few years lat... More

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Significance: A significant part of the Serralles family empire. Typical of the sugar cane plantations in Puerto Rico which underwent considerable technological change and became a full-mechanized producer of ... More

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Significance: A significant part of the Serralles family empire. Typical of the sugar cane plantations in Puerto Rico which underwent considerable technological change and became a full-mechanized producer of ... More

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Significance: A significant part of the Serralles family empire. Typical of the sugar cane plantations in Puerto Rico which underwent considerable technological change and became a full-mechanized producer of ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Drainage Plant, 2 Miles South of Thibo...

Significance: Drainage, as effected through a system of ditches leading back to a pumping plant in the rear of a plantation, was an essential facet of operations on low-lying Louisiana sugar plantations. The s... More

Kekaha Sugar Company, Automotive and Tractor Repair Shops, 8315 Kekaha Road, Kekaha, Kauai County, HI

Kekaha Sugar Company, Automotive and Tractor Repair Shops, 8315 Kekaha...

For information on the irrigation supply system, see HALS HI-22, Kekaha Ditch, Black Pipe Siphon. Significance: The building is associated with the history and development of Kekaha Sugar Company's Mill. It is ... More

Estate Reef Bay, Great House, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Estate Reef Bay, Great House, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: The buildings of the Estate Reef Bay, Great House Complex and Sugar Factory, were constructed in 1844 on existing building sites and incorporated the remains of older structures. The Estate was t... More

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, House, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge Over Manati River, Manati, Manati Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, House, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER PR-1-C Building/structure dates: ca. 18t2 Initial Construction

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, House, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge Over Manati River, Manati, Manati Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, House, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HAER PR-1-C Building/structure dates: ca. 18t2 Initial Construction

Haraguchi Rice Mill, Hanalei River, Hanalei, Kauai County, HI

Haraguchi Rice Mill, Hanalei River, Hanalei, Kauai County, HI

Significance: The Haraguchi Rice Mill is one of the last remnants of rice farming on the island of Kauai. Rice cultivation by Chinese and Japanese farmers was an important element of the Hawaiian economy from ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, "Big" House, 2 Miles South of Thibodau...

Significance: This structure is the largest and most prestigious on the plantation. The elaborately wainscoted central hall runs 84 feet and is 12 feet wide. The ceilings are 14 feet high. The front porch is... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, General Store, 2 Miles South of Thibod...

Significance: Built around 1905 by Barker-Lepine to replace an older structure that had burned, the Laurel Valley Store served the needs of plantation workers as well as others living along the bayou. Here cus... More

Estate Annaberg, Annaberg, St. John, VI

Estate Annaberg, Annaberg, St. John, VI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS VI-18 Building/structure dates: ca. 1731 Initial Construction

Estate Annaberg, Annaberg, St. John, VI

Estate Annaberg, Annaberg, St. John, VI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS VI-18 Building/structure dates: ca. 1731 Initial Construction

Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Bagasse Storage Warehouse, Honouliuli Plain, near intersection of Renton Road & Park Row, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Bagasse Storage Warehouse, H...

Significance: This was the last building erected by the EPC in their Industrial Center, in 1956. It was built to store the fibrous cane material, called bagasse, left over from the milling process, which in tu... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

8 and 10 year old children of Walker family pulling and pilling beets. See 4018.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

8 and 10 year old children of Walker family pulling and pilling beets....

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Pioneer Mill Company, Upper Lahaina Pump Ditch & Makila Reservoir Ditch, Land of Launiupoko, Lahaina, Maui County, HI

Pioneer Mill Company, Upper Lahaina Pump Ditch & Makila Reservoir Ditc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Corn Crib, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Corn Crib, 2 miles South of Thibodaux ...

Significance: This is the most interesting livestock-agricultural building to survive at Laurel Valley due to the hoisting assembly in the structure which facilitated the storage of feed corn. The Y-shaped tra... More

Estate Reef Bay, Service Buildings, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Estate Reef Bay, Service Buildings, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: The buildings of the Estate Reef Bay, Great House, Factory and Service Buildings were constructed in 1844 on existing building sites and incorporated the remains of older structures. The Estate w... More

Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Westend Quarter, Centerline Road, Frederiksted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Westend Quarter,...

Significance: The overhead crank steam engine and associated cane crusher now displayed at the Estate Whim Museum were manufactured by P. & W. McOnie, Glasgow, Scotland in 1847. Originally installed at Estate M... More

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who rents land from him and another who works on contract. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July 1915.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who move...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work.]  Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Estate Annaly, Sugar Mill, North Side, St. Croix, VI

Estate Annaly, Sugar Mill, North Side, St. Croix, VI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HAER VI-8

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Shotgun Quarters, 2 miles South of Thi...

Significance: This structure is linear in construction and used extensively in Bayou LaFourche plantations and the surrounding area. The term is derived from the belief that a shotgun could be fired from the f... More

Sion Hill Estate, Sion Hill, St. Croix, VI

Sion Hill Estate, Sion Hill, St. Croix, VI

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Sion Hill Estate, Sion Hill, St. Croix, VI
Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Lumber Shed, Honouliuli Plain, near intersection of Renton Road & Park Row, Ewa, Honolulu County, HI

Ewa Plantation Company Industrial Center, Lumber Shed, Honouliuli Plai...

Significance: This building is associated with the history of the Ewa Plantation Company. It represents a ca. 1939 addition to the EPC Industrial Center, in conformance with the plan in the 1938 Annual Report.... More

Laura Plantation, Main House, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, St. James Parish, LA

Laura Plantation, Main House, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, St. James Par...

The address was updated from "River Road" to "2247 Highway 18" to more accurately reflect its location. 1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Survey number: HABS LA-1213-A Building/structure dates: 1805 Initia... More

Laura Plantation, Main House, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, St. James Parish, LA

Laura Plantation, Main House, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, St. James Par...

The address was updated from "River Road" to "2247 Highway 18" to more accurately reflect its location. 1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Survey number: HABS LA-1213-A Building/structure dates: 1805 Initia... More

Lihu'e Mill Bridge, Kaumauli'i Highway at Ho'omana Road, Lihue, Kauai County, HI

Lihu'e Mill Bridge, Kaumauli'i Highway at Ho'omana Road, Lihue, Kauai ...

Significance: The bridge has made significant contributions in the areas of engineering and transportation on the Island of Kaua'i. The steel stringer bridge grade separation contributed to the economic develop... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Engineer's House, 2 Miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Engineer's House, 2 Miles South of Thi...

Significance: The Creole House is the most common folk house in French Louisiana. Constructed by everyday folks, from preconceived ideas of what constitutes a proper house, folk houses are identical in form, b... More

Gianella Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at State Highway 32, Hamilton City, Glenn County, CA

Gianella Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at State Highway 32, Hamilt...

Significance: The Gianella Bridge is the oldest remaining highway swing bridge in California. It is important in local history for its relation to events in local economic and agricultural development. It is ... More

Gianella Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at State Highway 32, Hamilton City, Glenn County, CA

Gianella Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at State Highway 32, Hamilt...

Significance: The Gianella Bridge is the oldest remaining highway swing bridge in California. It is important in local history for its relation to events in local economic and agricultural development. It is ... More

Gianella Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at State Highway 32, Hamilton City, Glenn County, CA

Gianella Bridge, Spanning Sacramento River at State Highway 32, Hamilt...

Significance: The Gianella Bridge is the oldest remaining highway swing bridge in California. It is important in local history for its relation to events in local economic and agricultural development. It is ... More

San Francisco Sugar Central, Indios, Guayanilla Municipio, PR

San Francisco Sugar Central, Indios, Guayanilla Municipio, PR

Survey number: HAER PR-26 Public domain photograph of industrial building, landscape, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hacienda Azucarera La Concepcion, Sugar Mill Ruins, .3 Mi. W. of Junction of Rts. 418 & 111, Victoria, Agaudilla Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Concepcion, Sugar Mill Ruins, .3 Mi. W. of Junct...

Significance: Hacienda La Concepcion was established on the old banks of the Culebrinas River by the family of Dona Eulalia Quinones. In 1868, her husband, Jose Nestor Cardona, installed the steam engine and m... More

Hacienda Azucarera La Concepcion, Sugar Mill Ruins, .3 Mi. W. of Junction of Rts. 418 & 111, Victoria, Agaudilla Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Concepcion, Sugar Mill Ruins, .3 Mi. W. of Junct...

Significance: Hacienda La Concepcion was established on the old banks of the Culebrinas River by the family of Dona Eulalia Quinones. In 1868, her husband, Jose Nestor Cardona, installed the steam engine and m... More

Hacienda Azucarera La Lucia, Sugar Mill Ruins, Yabucoa, Yabucoa Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Lucia, Sugar Mill Ruins, Yabucoa, Yabucoa Munici...

Survey number: HAER PR-30 Building/structure dates: ca. 1883 Initial Construction

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge over Manati River, Manati, Manati Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR...

Significance: The La Esperanza's decorated steam engine is the only West Point Foundry beam engine known to survive. It is also the only known 6-column beam engine by any American manufacturer. Additionally, i... More

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR Rt. 2 Bridge over Manati River, Manati, Manati Municipio, PR

Hacienda Azucarera La Esperanza, Steam Engine & Mill, 2.65 Mi. N of PR...

Significance: The La Esperanza's decorated steam engine is the only West Point Foundry beam engine known to survive. It is also the only known 6-column beam engine by any American manufacturer. Additionally, i... More

Grove Farm, G. N. Wilcox House, Nawiliwili Road (State Route 58), Lihue, Kauai County, HI

Grove Farm, G. N. Wilcox House, Nawiliwili Road (State Route 58), Lihu...

Significance: Grove Farm, founded by George N. Wilcox in 1864, was one of 86 sugar plantations known to have operated in the Hawaiian Islands. Wilcox cultivated and harvested sugarcane and raised beef cattle, g... More

Grove Farm, G. N. Wilcox House, Nawiliwili Road (State Route 58), Lihue, Kauai County, HI

Grove Farm, G. N. Wilcox House, Nawiliwili Road (State Route 58), Lihu...

Significance: Grove Farm, founded by George N. Wilcox in 1864, was one of 86 sugar plantations known to have operated in the Hawaiian Islands. Wilcox cultivated and harvested sugarcane and raised beef cattle, g... More

Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: The factory at Estate Reef Bay affords one of the finest surviving examples of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Boiling coppers, used for processing cane-juice, remain in place in their maso... More

Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: The factory at Estate Reef Bay affords one of the finest surviving examples of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Boiling coppers, used for processing cane-juice, remain in place in their maso... More

Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: The factory at Estate Reef Bay affords one of the finest surviving examples of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Boiling coppers, used for processing cane-juice, remain in place in their maso... More

Norfolk beet sugar factory. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Norfolk beet sugar factory. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Photograph shows interior of factory with group of men posed on landing and stairs.

Post's sugar mill, La. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Post's sugar mill, La. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tavern, pub, or small restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Unloading cane at a modern mill

Unloading cane at a modern mill

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Protected monopoly vs political exposure, Political Cartoon

Protected monopoly vs political exposure, Political Cartoon

Cartoon showsTheodore Roosevelt carrying a large rolled paper "Message." A man labeled "Sugar Trust" carries an umbrella labeled "Reciprocity" as a storm cloud "Tariff Revision" looms overhead. At the men's fee... More

Michigan Sugar Co., Saginaw, Mich.

Michigan Sugar Co., Saginaw, Mich.

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[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.]  Location: [Sugar City, Colorado]

[Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eigh...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July, 1915.  Location: Rocky Ford [vicinity], Colorado.

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Co...

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Shack in which the Reibers live, 10 x 15 ft. with a small shed attached. See other photos.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

Shack in which the Reibers live, 10 x 15 ft. with a small shed attache...

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Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing [sic] and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work.  Location: Iliff, Colorado / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] toppin...

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Godchaux sugar refinery, Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

Godchaux sugar refinery, Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisia...

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Kekaha Sugar Company, Warehouse-Field Equipment Repair Shop, 8315 Kekaha Road, Kekaha, Kauai County, HI

Kekaha Sugar Company, Warehouse-Field Equipment Repair Shop, 8315 Keka...

For information on the irrigation supply system, see HALS HI-22, Kekaha Ditch, Black Pipe Siphon. Significance: The repair shop is associated with the history and development of Kekaha Sugar Company's Mill. It ... More

A representation of the sugar-cane and the art of making sugar

A representation of the sugar-cane and the art of making sugar

Print shows sugarcane processing, probably in the West Indies, with a white overseer directing Natives at a press(?) and boiling operation. Illus. from: The universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure .... Lo... More

Sugar harvest, Impressions of the Fight ... in Indonesia, p41
Estate Annaberg, Sugar Factory, Adrian, St. John, VI

Estate Annaberg, Sugar Factory, Adrian, St. John, VI

Significance: Estate Annaberg Sugar Factory is an 18th century mill. The factory contains remains of 18th and 19th century construction and reveals traces of several remodellings. Builder is unknown. Unproce... More

Caneel Bay Plantation, Sugar Factory, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

Caneel Bay Plantation, Sugar Factory, Cruz Bay, St. John, VI

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Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Cro...

Significance: Rust-op-Twist's long and troubled history as a sugar producing estate is typical of many other St. Croix plantations. An animal mill, and windmill, and a steam mill - representative of the evoluti... More

Kekaha Sugar Company, Bagasse Storage Building, 8315 Kekaha Road, Kekaha, Kauai County, HI

Kekaha Sugar Company, Bagasse Storage Building, 8315 Kekaha Road, Keka...

For information on the irrigation supply system, see HALS HI-22, Kekaha Ditch, Black Pipe Siphon. Significance: It is associated with the history and development of Kekaha Sugar Company's mill. It is a good exa... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

Significance: Although the building is now in ruins, a large collection of plantation records covering the period 1897-1926 has survived. Thus the manufacture of sugar can be examined from the perspective of a ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

Significance: Although the building is now in ruins, a large collection of plantation records covering the period 1897-1926 has survived. Thus the manufacture of sugar can be examined from the perspective of a ... More

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux on State Route 308, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA

Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation, Sugar Mill, 2 miles South of Thibodaux...

Significance: Although the building is now in ruins, a large collection of plantation records covering the period 1897-1926 has survived. Thus the manufacture of sugar can be examined from the perspective of a ... More

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