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Book or Pamphlet

Grow a Garden

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st...
Book or Pamphlet

Make the Garden Pay

Date: 01 20 1928
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an illustration of a basket ...
Book or Pamphlet

Grow a Vegetable Garden

Date: 03 15 1918
Description: Booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family vegetable gardens. Includes the text: "grow a vegetable g...
Book or Pamphlet

More and Better Potatoes to the Acre

Date: 06 15 1932
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help farmers improve their potato crops. Includes an illustra...
Print

I Am Thine

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Description: Valentine's Day card of a die cut beet fastened to a die cut heart with a metal paper fastener. When closed, "I Am Thine" is on the front. When the beet is...
Print

Acme Insecticides Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Acme White Lead & Color Works of Detroit, Michigan, which as part of its business produced insecticides for farm and home garden applicat...
Print

Chas. Beard Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Chas. (Charles) Beard, a grower of fancy rural New York seed potatoes from Elcho, Wisconsin, with a duotone image of a potato, and "One of My...
Print

Oconomowoc Canning Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oconomowoc Canning Company, with a can of Teenie Weenie Wisconsin peas featuring a label with Teenie Weenie figures emptying pods of peas...
Print

Dutch Canning Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of The Dutch Canning Company of Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, "Packers of Fancy Corn Peas and Beans," with a boy and girl in traditional clothing and ...
Print

Fairwater Canning Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Fairwater Canning Company of Markesan, Wisconsin, "Packers of High Grade Wisconsin Peas," with peapods growing on the vine and gold embos...
Print

Fuhremann Canning Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of Fuhremann Canning Company of De Forest, Wisconsin, "Packers of Fancy Peas and Corn" under the brands "Housewife's Pride, Judge Right & First Ro...
Print

Wm. Larsen Canning Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wm. Larsen Canning Company of Green Bay, Wisconsin, with peapods growing on the vine and three cans of peas: Larsen's Special Brand, Gree...
Print

Wisconsin Pea Canners Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Pea Canners Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, packers of Lakeside and Eureka brands of peas, beans, sauerkraut, pumpkin, and hom...
Print

Beaver Canning Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Beaver Canning Company of Randolph, Wisconsin, packers of peas and sweet corn, with three beavers perched on a branch overhanging the wat...
Print

The Home of Julius Koehler

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card created to promote agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. This piece displays Julius Koehler, a man, and a woman in the flourishing ga...
Map or Atlas

Paul Sample's America: Its soil

Date: 1946
Description: This bird's-eye-view map shows scenes of land use and farming superimposed on a map of the United States. Agricultural scenes of farming, livestock, and cr...
Map or Atlas

The Covarrubias America : A Decorative Map of the United States of America

Date: 1942
Description: This pictorial bird's-eye-view map shows the United States of America with parts of Canada and Mexico. Landscape, trade, industry, points of interest, peop...
Poster

Eat More Corn, Oats and Rye Products

Date: 1917
Description: Poster urging food conservation depicting a variety of acceptable foods arranged on a table. The rest of the text reads: "Fish and poultry — fruits, vegeta...
Poster

The Spirit of '18

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration imitating Archibald Willard's "The Spirit of '76," here with the three men carrying food. Text reads: "The World Cry, Food, Kee...
Poster

An Acre of Roots Will Winter Your Stock

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large root vegetable. Highlights of text the reads: "An acre of roots will winter your stock... Why grow roots?... Why feed roots?... Bi...

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