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R. Hornsby & Sons Catalog

Date: 12 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick farm equipment featuring an illustration of wheat bursting through a red background.
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Excelsior harvesting machinery manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features a color illustration of a boy and girl in a ...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering and Company Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 4

Date: 1892
Description: Fourth page of calendar for July and August, 1892. Features an illustration of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine in a field...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of wheat and flowers and a barbed wire fence in the foreground, framing a view of a field. There is a man in the di...
Book or Pamphlet

J.I. Case & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1872
Description: Catalog cover reads: "J.I. Case, Manufacturers of Improved Threshing Machines, Steam Engines, Horse Powers &c." Features illustrations of vegetables, frui...
Print

Deere & Co. Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card for Deere & Co. "Largest Plow Manfactory, in the World." Features an illustration of a stalk of wheat on the left, partially framing a sce...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog for Deering Harvester Company. The headline reads: "Around the World on a Harvester," and features an illustration of men and women ...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Drill Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Front and back cover of catalog. Front features a yellow background behind the text: "Empire Drill Co., 1849-1903," and an illustration of an Empire Drill....
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Front and back cover of a catalog for harvesting machines. The cover features a color illustration of shocks of hay in a field surrounded by sun rays in th...
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

Date: 1889
Description: Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I."
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1872
Description: Front cover of catalog with the title: "The Kirby Mower and Reaper." The "K" and "Y" letters of Kirby are drawn as shocks of wheat, and the "IRB" letters a...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Cover for Light Running Plano binders, mowers, headers, reapers, hay rakes and sickle grinders. Features an illustration on the top left in gold ink on a r...
Book or Pamphlet

Richardson Manufacturing Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of catalog for the Worcester Buckeye Mower, with a color illustration of a buckeye nut and stalks of wheat.
Book or Pamphlet

Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Front cover featuring a color illustration of wheat, clover flowers, and a calendar for 1901, around an inset illustration of a farmer working in a field w...
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Front cover of catalog with a green cover for Wood's harvesting machines. Features an illustration of, at the top, a view of a town, flanked by two women, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1881
Description: Wood's mowers, featuring an illustration of a man using a team of horses to pull a mower in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Brochure

Date: 1900
Description: Brochure for the Paris Exposition with text in French. Two inside spreads show a man on the left using a team of two horses to pull a harvesting machine in...

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