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Advance Thresher Company

Date: 1899
Description: Exterior view of the Advance Thresher Company, 601 Williamson Street, as seen in "Madison, Wis. And It's Points Of Interest." The dealer was one of many wh...
Photograph

Threshing and Marketing with Wheat

Date: 1900
Description: Familes start to market with wheat from Seger Colony School.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Thresher Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering combines (harvester-threshers). Includes the text: "McCormick-Deering Combines for every farm and ev...
Book or Pamphlet

Minneapolis Threshing Machine Brochure

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced to advertise the Minneapolis threshing machine. The cover is decorated with the word "Satisfaction" and the company's log...
Book or Pamphlet

Twin City Agricultural Equipment Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for Twin City tractors and threshers, produced by the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company. The text on the advertisement reads: "Power fo...
Print

Right Arm of Agriculture Advertisement

Date: 1921
Description: Advertisement for Twin City Power Farming and Equipment featuring the text "The Right Arm of Agriculture" and an illustration of a farmer's arm beside illu...
Book or Pamphlet

Threshing Machinery Booklet

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Nichols & Shepard Company threshing machinery featuring a color illustration of farmers using a Red River Special thre...
Book or Pamphlet

Threshing Machinery Booklet Back Cover

Date: 1918
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising Nichols & Shepard Company threshing machinery, which features a color illustration of a tractor powering a threshing m...
Book or Pamphlet

Lauson Tractor Usages

Date: 1925
Description: Inside pages of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson tractor, depicting six usages of the equipment on a farm: plowing, silo filling, discing, corn shelling, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Port Huron Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Port Huron Wild Cat agitator and the Port Huron "rusher-thresher." The page features illustrations of a wild cat ...
Print

Separation by Pitchfork

Date: 1918
Description: Illustration titled: "This is the Whole Story of Modern, Clean and Successful Threshing." The top section reads: "This is the way to Separate by hand with ...
Print

Orchard Tractor and Thresherman's Special

Date: 1937
Description: Advertisement for the Oliver Hart-Parr orchard tractor (pictured at top left) and the thresherman's special. The slogan at the top of the page reads: "Oliv...
Print

Baker Grain Thresher

Date: 1929
Description: Side view of the Baker grain thresher. The caption beneath the illustration reads: "We invite you to study carefully and thoroughly this interior view of t...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Threshers Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Avery Yellow-Fellow and Yellow-Kid threshers. The cover features an illustration of men using threshers in a farm...
Book or Pamphlet

Threshing Machines Pamphlet

Date: 1921
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising Advance-Rumely threshing machines featuring a color illustration of farmers using a stationary thresher near a barn.
Book or Pamphlet

Geiser Thresher

Date: 1919
Description: Pamphlet advertising the Geiser No.4 and No. 5 thresher featuring a photograph of a man and dog beside the machine, and the cut-out shape of a tractor on t...

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