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Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Covers

Date: 1888
Description: Front and back cover of catalog, featuring on the front an illustration of birds, mice, and flying insects near a wheat field. The back cover reads: "Manuf...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover featuring an illustration of a man and a woman relaxing on a porch. In the background on the right a team of horses are harnessed to a Milwauke...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Spread

Date: 1902
Description: Inside 2-page spread with a color illustration of a man in a field on a Milwaukee harvesting machine pulled by a team of two horses. A woman is standing ne...
Book or Pamphlet

North American Agricultural Implement and General Manufacturing Co.

Date: 1884
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a globe among clouds. Small oval inset illustrations are of farmers working in fields in Africa, A...
Print

James Oliver, Inventor of the Chilled Plow

Date: 
Description: Color portrait of James Oliver pasted onto a card. "When I sell a plow, I make a friend."
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

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

D.M. Osborne & Co. Advertisement

Date: 1860
Description: Advertisement card that reads: "The Kirby. It Mows! It Reaps! It Rakes!" Includes a photograph that has been pasted onto the card of a man using the Kirby.
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

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1891
Description: Front cover of catalog for mowers, reapers and self-binding harvesting machinery. Features a color illustration of a portrait of a man with a beard wearing...
Book or Pamphlet

Patterson & Brothers Twine Binder Inside Spread

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of advertising brochure for Patterson and Brothers, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Patterson, Ontario, Canada. Features a chromolit...
Print

Peerless Reaper Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1880
Description: Front of advertising card featuring an illustration of a man woken up by a horse, on whose side is written: "Nightmare." Text above and below reads: "Why d...
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 ...
Print

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertising Card

Date: 1882
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a group of men looking at a man sitting on a Plano harvester and twine binder in front of an Ag...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1891
Description: Back cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of children riding on a harvesting machine pulled by three boys. The caption reads: "It is as simple a...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man using a Light Running Plano in a field with two horses. Around the border are illustrations of types of le...
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...
Print

Plano Manufacturing Company Calendar

Date: 1901
Description: Calendar for Light Running Plano binders, mowers-headers, reapers-hayrakes, & sickle grinders. The calendar has an illustration of a man using Jone's Lever...
Print

Sheridan's Powder Advertising Card

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card with the heading: "To make hens lay, use Sheridan's condition powder." Features a color illustration of a man in a hen house on the left h...

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