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| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph card featuring an illustration of a man (or boy) perched barefoot on a rope ladder at the edge of a balcony. He is trying to kiss the woma... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with an illustration of a framed portrait of a red headed woman wearing an off-white hat and pink dress, surrounded by foliage and flowers. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Finnish language catalog, featuring an illustration of an enlarged three leafed clover which is surrounded by clover flowers, wheat and a dragonfly. Small ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with framed headline: "Forty Harvest Seasons 1858-1898." Features a styled design of stalks of wheat, poppy flowers, and a sickle. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with the headline: "Light Draft Ideals." Two eagles flying in the sky, and a border of wheat and flowers, are illustrated to look like a carv... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with the text: "Deering Harvesters for 1900." Features a stylized illustration in dark green, red, and gold ink of fruit trees, plants, flowe... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Grass cutting machinery catalog cover. Features an illustration of a flying putto holding onto a cornucopia spilling flowers into a field. Birds fly in the... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a Deering Harvester Company brochure for twine. The cover reads: "The Original Spinners," and "The World's Greatest Spinners, Deeri... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover in light blue featuring an art nouveau frame in black around an illustration of ducks over marshy water with lilypads and rice plants. A red ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a small booklet. The front cover has an illustration of a young girl wearing a straw hat, with the title: "A Future Customer." On t... |
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| Description: | Front of foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. When opened, five panels, with images on both sides, depict various scenes, and include i... |
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| Description: | Front of foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young girl standing on an upturned basket feeding chickens with feed... |
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| Description: | Three panel foldout brochure for Deering Binder Twines: Daisy Twine, Golden Rod Twine, Lily Twine and Butter Cup Twine. Features illustrations of a young g... |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of 8 page booklet advertising Deering wares. Each page features an illustration and a verse, to describe the features of the All Steel... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back cover of catalog featuring two illustrations with the title: "A Pointer." The top illustration, captioned: "Union is Strength," shows a dog lying in t... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back of the catalog cover. Illustration on front shows a group of children looking and laughing at dog that has been costumed in a hat, cape and ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with the title: "The Three Greatest Empires," features an illustration of an Empire Drill in the foreground, and in the background a train tr... |
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