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Oliver Tractor Plows Outside Factory

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Description: View of new Oliver plows set up in a row outside the factory works.
Print

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...
Photograph

International Street Cleaner Truck

Date: 1922
Description: International Model "L-101" truck with "street flushing outfit" of the Municipal Supply Company. The truck is cleaning a residential street.
Photograph

International G-61 Street Cleaning Truck

Date: 1921
Description: An International Model G-61 truck operated as a street cleaner. The truck has a sprinkler outfit by the Municipal Supply Company.
Photograph

Crew with Husker and Shredder

Date: 01 12 1916
Description: Several men are working around a husker-shredder and a wagon loaded with corn. A barn is one the right. The husker-shredder is attached to a tractor. A fen...
Photograph

Business District

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Description: View across intersection of the business district featuring the 'largest post clock in the United States,' located on the corner of Washington Avenue and M...
Photograph

International Garbage Truck

Date: 1931
Description: Elevated view of two men emptying a metal garbage can into the bed of an International Model AW-2 truck. The lettering on the truck reads: "Garbage Dept. P...
Print

Bissell Chilled Plow Advertising Card

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Description: Features a color illustration of a Bissell Chilled plow in a field. The back of the card describes the plow.
Print

James Oliver, Inventor of the Chilled Plow

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Description: Color portrait of James Oliver pasted onto a card. "When I sell a plow, I make a friend."
Book or Pamphlet

Oliver Chilled Plow Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of catalog for "Plows and Plow Making as shown by the Oliver Chilled Plow Works."
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

Date: 1889
Description: Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I."
Print

South Bend Chilled Plow Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using the plow in a field with a team of two horses.

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