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Hybrid Seed Corn Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of a brochure on hybrid seed corn with the text: "Hybrid Seed Corn - What it is and how to Plant it."
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John A. Salzer Seed Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the John A. Salzer Seed Company, with an eagle atop a globe holding a banner that proclaims, "Salzer's Seeds Are Sown the World Over," an ova...
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Victory Garden Seed Order Form

Date: 1943
Description: Front side of order blank for Aunt Jenny's Garden for Victory seeds featuring a drawing of a woman and several vegetables.
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Kentucky Alfalfa and Grass Seed Drill

Date: 1917
Description: General line catalog illustrations showing two sides of a Kentucky alfalfa and grass seed drill. The text beneath the left illustration reads: "Fills a lon...
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Hoosier Alfalfa and Grass Seed Drill

Date: 1916
Description: General line catalog illustrations of two sides of a Hoosier alfalfa and grass seed drill. The text beneath the left illustration reads: "Makes the Growing...
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Chas. Beard Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Chas. (Charles) Beard, a grower of fancy rural New York seed potatoes from Elcho, Wisconsin, with a duotone image of a potato, and "One of My...
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Wilbur Seed Meal Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Wilbur Seed Meal Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturer of horse, cattle, poultry, and egg food, hoof packing, and various animal re...
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Kickapoo Farm Seeds, Label

Date: 01 20 1945
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features the shape of the state of Wisconsin outlined in blue and filled in with yell...
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Preparing Seed Bed with the Cletrac

Date: 1920
Description: Rear-view of a Cletrac tank-type crawler tractor as it pulls a plow through a farm field. The caption reads: "Notice the deep hard packed ditches left by t...
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Cletrac Farming is Better Farming

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Cletrac tank-type crawler tractor featuring illustrations of the machine in use in farm fields; the image at left depicts plowing whi...
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To My Valentine

Date: 1880
Description: Valentine's Day card with an image of a child peering out of a metallic gold circle. Surrounding the child are dandelion flowers and leaves. The child is b...
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Milwaukee Reaper

Date: 1917
Description: General line catalog color illustration of a Milwaukee reaper. The text beneath the illustration reads: "A Light Draft Easily-Operated Machine Particularly...
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Kentucky ASM Drills

Date: 1917
Description: General line catalog color illustration of a Kentucky ASM drill. The text beneath the illustration reads: "Reduces the Chance of Crop Failure - Gives Every...
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Sembradora

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Description: Spanish language advertisement for an International Harvester seeder featuring a man using a tractor and the seeder in a farm field. The headline reads: "S...
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Sembradoras

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Description: Spanish language advertisement for International Harvester seeders, or grain drills, featuring a color photo of a seeder in a field. The text reads, "Sembr...
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Auto-Tiller Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Two interior pages of a pamphlet produced by the World Harvester Corporation to advertise the auto-tiller. The advertisement features a photograph of a man...
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Why You Should Have a Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Illinois Super-Drive tractor with six photographs of the machinery in use on farms. The headline reads: "Here Are Reasons Why You Sho...
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Poor Old Simple Virginia

Date: 1860
Description: An old woman, stooped over and holding a cane, has Union soldiers ("NORTH" on the left) and Confederate soldiers ("SOUTH" on the right) climbing ladders to...
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St. Valentine's Day

Date: 1887
Description: Valentine's Day card with tan fringe and tasseled cords. A border of white daisies surrounds a smaller zig-zag border. Inside the border is the text "St. V...

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