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A Catalog of Plants & Shells

Date: 1836
Description: Title page of Increase Lapham's A catalog of Plants & Shells, Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee on the West Side of Lake Michigan,
Manuscript

Title Page of Lapham's A catalog of Plants Found in the Viciinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1838
Description: Title page of Increase Lapham's Catalog of Plants Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory.
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows. Includes an illustration of a steamboat on the water, and cotton plants.
Book or Pamphlet

John A Salzer Seed Co. Catalog

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of the 1919 John A. Salzer Co. Seed Catalog featuring a colorful variety of Nasturtiums. The page is also decorated with a floral border.
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Front cover of the catalog featuring an embossed silhouette illustration of a man using a horse-drawn Plano harvesting machine.
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier Grain Drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased by Internati...
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog cover featuring a chromolithograph illustration of flowers around a red scroll with blue ribbon, advertising the Mowing & R...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1888
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The illustration shows a bouquet of wild flowers and plants in the foreground over ...
Book or Pamphlet

John A. Salzer Seed Co. Catalog

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of the 1919 John A. Salzer Seed Co. catalog featuring depictions of carrots, cabbage and a honeydew melon. The back cover also bears the slogan ...
Book or Pamphlet

Cloverleaf Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Cloverleaf manure spreader, featuring an illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn ...
Book or Pamphlet

Steel Cloverleaf Manure Spreader Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Steel Cloverleaf line of manure spreaders. Features a color illustration of a woman feeding a...
Book or Pamphlet

John A. Salzer Seed Co. Catalog

Date: 1938
Description: Front cover of the 70th Anniversary (1868-1938) John A. Salzer Seed Co. catalog featuring a colorful mix of pansies and a quotation from Shakespeare. The a...
Book or Pamphlet

John A. Salzer Seed Co. Catalog

Date: 1938
Description: Back cover of the 1938 catalog for the John A. Salzer Seed Co., featuring a colorful variety of phlox. A portion of the modern train image from the front c...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Catalog cover with the text: "Deering Harvesters for 1900." Features a stylized illustration in dark green, red, and gold ink of fruit trees, plants, flowe...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Steel Rice Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Catalog cover in light blue featuring an art nouveau frame in black around an illustration of ducks over marshy water with lilypads and rice plants. A red ...
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration in green, red and gold ink on a black background, of bundles of wheat, clover leaves, flowers, trees,...
Book or Pamphlet

Salzer Seed Company Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1898
Description: The back cover design of the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features strawberries, tomatotos, and figs, and a woman and girl in a ga...
Book or Pamphlet

Salzer Seed Company Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1913
Description: A back cover design for the John A. Salzer Seed Company catalog. The illustration features a variety of flowers in the foreground, and in the background, a...
Photograph

Japanese Lantern Plant

Date: 10 13 1927
Description: Dried arrangement of Japanese lantern plant in a vase for the Olds Seed Company catalog.
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a Persian horseman on the side of a cliff looking down upon ...

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