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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick harvesting machines. The cover features an illustration of an old man wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and readi...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I...
Photograph

IH Dealer J.S. Nelson

Date: 03 12 1924
Description: J.S. Nelson, an International Harvester dealer, speaks with a man seated on corn planter(?). Two men smoking pipes watch from the shed in the background.
Print

Louis Schoen's Old Lager, Label

Date: 1944
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Louis Schoen's Old Beer Lager, Quality has No Substitute, Brewed and Bottled by the ...

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