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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering and Company Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi...
Drawing

Shooting Wild Pigeons

Date: 09 21 1867
Description: Illustration of four men shooting at a thick flock of wild pigeons. Hunting dogs are gathered around them in the field, which has a number of dead birds.
Book or Pamphlet

Men with Corn Harvest

Date: 1908
Description: Men with a mule team pulling a wagon beside bins filled with ears of corn. One of the men appears to be holding a goose near the pile of corn.
Photograph

Pheasant Release

Date: 10 1981
Description: "Chuck Trauba releases pheasants on Warner Road."
Print

Lauson 15-25 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Lauson 15-25 tractor featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the tractor and plow in a field, surrounded by an Art Deco-styl...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Farm Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Eagle farm tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a tractor to plow a field in front of a farmhouse.
Book or Pamphlet

Case Farm Tractors

Date: 1923
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Case farm tractors and Grand Detour plows. The cover features a color illustration of a man using a tractor to work in...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 4

Date: 1892
Description: Fourth page of calendar for July and August, 1892. Features an illustration of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine in a field...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Fold-Out Card — Inside

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Description: Front of foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young girl standing on an upturned basket feeding chickens with feed...
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...
Poster

McCormick-Deering No. 60 Combine

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for the "Efficient, Low-Cost Harvesting," and "A One-Man Combine For Any Man's Farm." Features a color illustration of a man on a tracto...
Drawing

Farm Scene

Date: 
Description: Pen and ink drawing farm scene of a man digging in a small, fenced-in plot of bare earth land. The scene includes two cows, two birds, a haystack, windmill...
Photograph

Hunting on a Shooting Preserve

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Description: Two men holding rifles with two black labs in a field. The man on the right is kneeling in the snow and holding a pheasant which one of the dogs is carryin...
Photograph

Turkey Hunting

Date: 04 1966
Description: A man in hunting gear is kneeling on the ground holding his rifle in his right hand, and holding up a dead turkey in his left.
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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