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Open Gate to Farm Profits

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Dayton-Dowd Leader 16-32 tractor featuring two half-circle illustrations of farm scenes and text reading: "The Open Gate to Greater P...
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Waterloo Boy in the Field

Date: 1928
Description: Photograph of a farmer using the Waterloo Boy tractor in a farm field. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "The Waterloo Boy, with its right-hand dri...
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Waterloo Boy Tractor with Grain Drill

Date: 1920
Description: A farmer uses a John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor to pull a John Deere-Van Brunt grain drill. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "The weight of the Wa...
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Fordson Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Industrial Fordson tractor and its accessories, illustrated from top left: portable winch, heavy-duty haulage tractor, portable loadi...
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Fordson Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Fordson tractor at a selling price of $305. The advertisement features an illustration of the tractor set above a photograph of the m...
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Frick Agricultural Equipment

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Frick line of agricultural equipment, including saw mills, engines, threshers, and tractors. Frick Company was ba...
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Gehl Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for the Gehl tractor featuring a headline reading: "It Meets Requirements Everywhere" along with three photographs of the tractor in action o...
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Gehl Farm Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for the Gehl tractor with a photograph of the tractor at use in a field, and a right side view of the tractor showing the steering control, b...
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GMC Samson Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the GMC Samson tractor with "sieve-grip." The photograph depicts two men using a Samson tractor and a plow in a field.
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The G-O Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the G-O Tractor featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor looking down upon a miniaturized man using a...
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King Corn

Date: 1901
Description: Advertisement for the grand exhibition of the McCormick corn binder, endorsed by "King Corn." Features an illustration of a Native American man and a photo...
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The Gile Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Illustration of a man using the Gile tractor in a farm field.
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Gray Tractor Demonstration

Date: 1920
Description: Color illustration of two men with Gray tractors in a cornfield. The caption reads: "This photo of Gray Tractors in a corn field shows the remarkable rolli...
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Hart-Parr Farm Equipment

Date: 1928
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Hart-Parr Company: "Founders of the Tractor Industry." Features a color illustration of a man using a Hart-Parr tr...
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The Sun Is His Furnace

Date: 10 1943
Description: A page from "The American Magazine" featuring the architect, George Fred Keck. He is shown with an architectural model of a "solar" home.
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The Solar Home

Date: 1944
Description: The cover of a 12 page advertising booklet called "The Solar Home," featuring the illustration of a window superimposed over a burst design. The text reads...
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Hart-Parr Advertisement

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a Hart-Parr advertising booklet featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the Hart-Parr 30 tractor to work in a field on a farmstead,...
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Again in the Spotlight

Date: 1928
Description: Advertisement for Hart-Parr agricultural equipment featuring a color illustration of a man operating a tractor along with text reading: "Again in the Spotl...
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Hollis Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for the Hollis tractor featuring two illustrations of the equipment and the slogan: "To See One is to Want One." Hollis was based in Pittsbur...
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Old Fashioned Methods Must Go

Date: 1919
Description: Illustration of a man using a horse and handheld plow to work in a farm field. The illustration is crossed out in red and captioned with the text: "Old Fas...

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