Poster
Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement
| Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesman wearing a hat and suit talking to a farmer. He is standing at the entrance to a cemetery for agricultural machinery. A skeleton riding on a piece of agricultural machinery is driving a team of horses through the cemetery gate that reads: "Bone Yard." The salesman is holding a sign on a pole that reads: "Just as Good as the Champion." A rolled-up document in his pocket says: "Documents to Fool the Farmer." Text below the farmer gives his response to the salesman's pitch. On the right a woman wearing a white dress and a crown that says "Agriculture" is holding a horn of plenty across her arm and holding up a banner that extols the benefits of the Champion brand. On the left are illustrations in the form of postcards that feature farmers using a horse-drawn grain binder and mower in the field. Along the bottom is text that reads: "The survival of the fittest." A number of animal illustrations with quotes complete the image. |
| Image ID: | 32443 |
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| Creation Date: | 1890 |
| Creator Name: | Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company |
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| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company competitors' advertising literature, 1832-1950 |
| Genre: | Poster |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6420.94 (5) |
| Original Dimensions: | 27.75 x 14 inches |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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