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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Broadsheet describing the opposition of numerous smaller agricultural machinery manufacturers to "...the monopoly which certain implement dealers, here in ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a schoolmaster in front of men from many nations. Includes the caption "all natio... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne harvesting machinery, featuring a color illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn corn binder. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustration of a crowd gathered around a Deering grain binder and mower at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The back of an advertising card for William Deering & Company promoting the Deering steel binder. The card, which reads: "Take This Card" across the top, w... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | The reverse side of a William Deering & Co. advertising card. The advertisement asserts that: "The strongest testimonials that could be given for the Deeri... |
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| Description: | Front view of a trade card created by the Plano Manufacturing Company featuring an illustration of a cat climbing a screened window in pursuit of a mouse. ... |
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| Description: | Reverse side of a trading card issued by the Plano Manufacturing Company with an explanation of the symbolism of the cat, mouse and man depicted on the fro... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for Adriance, Platt & Company featuring an illustration of a clock. Agricultural machinery parts serve as the hands of... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Second page of calendar for March and April, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one is of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Third page of calendar for May and June, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Back cover of calendar, with the text: "Hail Columbia, Happy Land!" Features a bird's-eye illustration of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fa... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Calendar back, with the month of December. Features an illustration of the Buckeye Binders and Mowers Factory buildings. In the foreground on the right a y... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | 1893 calendar, with the months of August & September. Features an illustration of a woman holding a light. Around her are books, telescope, and other objec... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover, in Spanish, featuring an illustration of trees framing a view of a man working in a field with two horses and a harvesting machine. Text at ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Back cover of catalog for Deering Harvester Company. Features an illustration of men, women and children riding on agricultural machinery pulled by horses.... |
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