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Chattanooga Chilled Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Chattanooga chilled plows. Includes a color illustration of a man using a walking plow behind two horses as viewed...
Poster

Implementos International de Labranza y Siembra

Date: 1920
Description: South American advertising poster for International tillage machines, including plows and disc harrows featuring color illustrations of the implements. Pri...
Poster

Chattanooga Slat-Mold Plow Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Chattanooga slat-mold walking plows featuring color illustration of the implement. Also includes an inset illustra...
Print

Randall Harrow Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Chattanooga Plow Company Catalog

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Chattanooga Plow Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Includes an illustration of a man with a horse-drawn walking pl...
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a view framed by trees and a fenc...
Manuscript

Have Our Rural Schools Kept Pace?

Date: 07 1951
Description: Graphic from University of Wisconsin Extension Service Special Circular 20 showing progress in transportation and economics and posing the question "have o...
Print

J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
Book or Pamphlet

Samson Tractor Brochure

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Samson Tractor Company, a division of General Motors Corporation, to advertise the Samson Model-M Tractor. The co...
Print

The Wisconsin Agriculturist Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of The Wisconsin Agriculturist, a weekly published in North Freedom, Wisconsin, with small background images of corn and wheat and a farmer plow...
Book or Pamphlet

Canton Plows Advertisement

Date: 10 10 1909
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for P&O Canton plows, manufactured by Parlin and Orendorff. Includes an illustration of a farmer using a horse-drawn plow ...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Tractor Sizes

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising multiple sizes of Avery tractors. The cover features photographs of Avery tractors at use on farms, along with two ill...
Print

The G-O Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the G-O Tractor featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor looking down upon a miniaturized man using a...
Print

Old Fashioned Methods Must Go

Date: 1919
Description: Illustration of a man using a horse and handheld plow to work in a farm field. The illustration is crossed out in red and captioned with the text: "Old Fas...
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal...
Print

South Bend Chilled Plow Advertising Card

Date: 
Description: Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using the plow in a field with a team of two horses.
Book or Pamphlet

P&O Light Draft Plows Catalog Cover

Date: 1919
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man using a hand plow with a team of two horses in a field.
Poster

The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with two illustrations of farmers plowing fields with horse-drawn plows. Text reads, in part: "The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye, More...
Postcard

Plowing for a good old Wisconsin Harvest

Date: 
Description: Rear view of four men plowing fields, assisted by teams of horses. Caption reads: "11. Plowing for a good old Wisconsin Harvest."
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Commencement of Spring Work

Date: 01 1884
Description: Illustration of a man attaching a plow to a horse team. A boy is adjusting the bridle for one of the horses, and a dog sitting in the foreground is looking...

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