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"Sugar Mill building area on Mindoro - some abandoned steam traction engines" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Abandoned Steam Tractors. After the Japanese invasion of Mindoro in February, 1942, operations apparently stopped at the Mindoro Sugar Cane…

"Sugar Mill building with heavy tractors parked along side - Somewhere on Mindoro"

"Sugar Plantation narrow guage Rail Road engine house tender of engine (steam) no. 8 in center stall" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Locomotive #8. During pre-war farming, these engines hauled raw sugar cane harvested on the southwest plains to the mill.…

"A street of native homes on one of the small islands off Mindoro - Among palm trees"

"Scene in a tiny barrio on one of the many small islands off Mindoro - Went for a ride in a search & rescue Higgins boat"

"Carabao resting in river"

"Filipino young lady with a stove-heated laundry iron. The handle with a brand name G - is transferable to other iron bases still heating on the stove"

"Filipino lady doing laundry by the river - using a scrub brush rather than a paddle"

"Filipino ladies washing clothes in shallow river on Mindoro Philippine Islands"

"Filipino clothes washing in river - Paddles were often used to beat the clothing either against a plank or a big flat rock"