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Poster

Dodge and Stevenson Advertising Poster

Date: 1871
Description: Advertising poster for the Dodge improved combined self raking reaper and mower featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer on the machine pull...
Photograph

Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha...
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Photograph

McCormick Farmall H in Cornfield by Pond

Date: 1949
Description: Farmer using a McCormick Farmall H tractor in a cornfield near a pond. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator.
Photograph

Farmer Cultivates Field with Deering Disc Harrow

Date: 05 10 1917
Description: Farmer pulling a Deering double disc harrow with four horses in a field. A lake, trees and houses are in the distance.
Photograph

McCormick Grain Binder with Sailing Ships

Date: 1900
Description: Man operating a McCormick horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A tugboat is pulling sailing ships on a body of water in the distance. The photograph appear...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor...
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Book or Pamphlet

Kemp 20th Century Manure Spreader Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Kemp 20th Century (reverse apron) line of manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man...
Photograph

Russian Man Plowing Field with Homemade Harrow

Date: 1920
Description: Man guides a homemade harrow through a field with a horse. The original caption reads: "Primitive methods of agriculture in Russia (Volga region)."
Photograph

Grafton Viaduct

Date: 
Description: View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three...
Photograph

Farm near Stream

Date: 
Description: View from hill over a valley dotted with farmsteads and a meandering stream in the foreground. A group of three or four people are posing at the opposite s...
Photograph

Town of Moscow From Cornfield

Date: 1875
Description: View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's line of Osborne harvesting machinery. The color illustration shows a man and a woman standing...
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
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.

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