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Milwaukee Harvesting Equipment Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster showing a Milwaukee brand mower, grain binder, hay rake and reaper manufactured by International Harvester Company. Features a color ill...
Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Book or Pamphlet

Saving the World From Starvation Advertisement

Date: 1922
Description: Color advertising flyer entitled "Saving the World From Starvation." Features an illustration of a man in a suit and hat and a farmer looking at McCormick-...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Bindlochine Catalog Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Bindlochine (grain binder). The color illustration features two small boys playing with a toy binder and horse m...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Book or Pamphlet

Wm. Deering & Co. Advertising Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. Features illustrations of sheep and chickens on the...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Grass Cutting Machinery Advertising Catalog

Date: 1888
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features a color illustration of children riding a...
Print

Union Gamecock and Secession Chicken

Date: 1860
Description: A rooster with a Union flag, representing the Union army, is facing a chicken (with what appears to be ostrich legs) with a piracy flag, which is supposed ...
Print

IH Sales Flyer: "My Customers"

Date: 1940
Description: Sales flyer with the title: "My Customers," featuring a cartoon of a mother hen (salesman) with her chicks (customers). Banners and corn cobs are labeled w...
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 05 1947
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a man in a uniform driving a truck, with a farm in the background. Includes t...
Print

Belle City Incubator Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Belle City Incubator Company of Racine, Wisconsin, manufacturers of hatching equipment. Includes illustrations of an egg incubator and a ...
Print

A.K. Porter Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of A.K. Porter, a poultry breeder and egg dealer from Shawano, Wisconsin, with an image of a rooster and a chicken. Printed on lined note paper.
Print

J.F. Riemer Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of J.F. Riemer, a poultry breeder of "S.C. Rhode Island Reds, S.C. Buff and Brown Leghorns, Barred and White Rocks, and S.C. Black Minorcas," fr...
Poster

Poster for "Neil O'Brien Great American Super-Minstrels"

Date: 1895
Description: This color lithograph poster shows a man in blackface with a giant rooster standing behind him looking over his shoulder. In the lower left corner, the act...
Print

Chicken Hot Dog Label

Date: 1928
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Chicken Hot Dog, Chicken Redhot Company, W.M. Neill, proprietor." On the label is an...
Print

Garver's, Label

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Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Garver's Poultry Mashes." Yellow, blue and red label with the drawing of a chicken.
Print

The Universal Food Chopper

Date: 1899
Description: A reproduction of an ad or counter card for the Universal Food Chopper. Text on the image reads, "The Universal Food Chopper, and a few of the things it ch...
Poster

Enlisted for Duration of The War

Date: 1916
Description: "Enlisted for Duration of The War. Help The National Egg Collection for the Wounded." Poster of a chicken wearing a red leg band and a sash with a symbol o...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Advertising Cuts — Everything for the Dairy, Poultry Fence

Date: 1913
Description: Features at the top an illustration of a cream separator, churn and pail. Cut reads: "Everything for the Dairy." The bottom illustration shows chickens beh...
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...

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