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Photograph

Typesetters at International Harvester Press

Date: 1947
Description: Two men operating monotype keyboards at International Harvester Press. The paper-punched product later goes through a caster, which makes new type to print...
Photograph

Graphic Artist in Office with Drawings

Date: 1920
Description: International Harvester advertising artist sitting at his desk in a studio office with a wistful look on his face. Graphics from Deering brand advertisemen...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1875
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1875
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower...
Photograph

Harvester Press Typesetting Room

Date: 1947
Description: Workers setting type inside the Harvester Press typesetting room.
Photograph

Ethel Anderson, Linotype Operator

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Catalog Illustration

Date: 1890
Description: Back cover illustration for a William Deering and Company catalog. Deering was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery. The illustration includes an engra...
Photograph

Man Demonstrating Gelatin Duplicating Equipment

Date: 
Description: A studio portrait of a seated man on a chair wearing a suit jacket, vest, and trousers. He is demonstrating gelatin duplicating equipment on paper in front...
Photograph

Man Operating Monotype Keyboard

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: Man typing on a monotype keyboard, possibly in a Harvester Press production area.
Photograph

Man Compositing Metal Type

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: Man in an apron, composing metal type to be printed. The man may have been a worker at the Harvester Press.
Photograph

Typesetter

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: Man selecting metal type, possibly at Harvester Press.
Print

McCormick's Prize Harvesters

Date: 1868
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for C.H. McCormick and Brothers, featuring an engraved illustration of man operating a horse-drawn mower. Includes the text...
Poster

Co-op Poster

Date: 
Description: A poster featuring an image of the Statue of Liberty with the text, "PROTECT and build Democracy thru a CO-OP." In the background is a building that says "...
Photograph

International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Jack Hutchinson (left), Patricia Stroud, Lynn Suhs, and Ward Cowles, head of the graphic arts department at the Vocational School, look at the school's pri...
Book or Pamphlet

International Auto Wagon Brochure — Front and Back Cover

Date: 
Description: Fold-out brochure, with a front and back cover shaped and printed as a barn. A man is shown driving an International Auto Wagon as seen through the open ba...
Drawing

Santa Claus Riding a Turret Lathe

Date: 1953
Description: Composite drawing of Santa Claus riding a Gisholt Machine Company lathe as a sleigh and holding a starred whip in hand to guide a team of eight flying rein...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Color illustration art of an overhead view of a man operating a Number 5 Ram Turret machine with a control panel. Metal shavings are scattered on the machi...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Color illustration art of a machine operator working on a six-arm turret. He is wearing a billed cap and safety goggles.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Illustration art of an engineer wearing work clothes and introducing a Gisholt Machine Company turret lathe.

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