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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement
| Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold frame of a man using a horse-drawn plow in a field, and the Oliver factory. Outside of the frame on the left is Father Time wearing a robe and holding a scythe, at the top of the gold frame is an owl, and below the gold frame a winged cherub is playing a lute. It also includes illustrations of disasters that occurred during 1883: shipwreck of the "Cimbria," earthquake in Ischia, volcanic eruption in Java (Krakatoa), a flood, and a train derailment. |
| Image ID: | 11650 |
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| Creation Date: | 1883 |
| Creator Name: | Oliver Chilled Plow Works |
| City: | South Bend |
| County: | |
| State: | Indiana |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company competitors' advertising literature, 1832-1950 |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 10Z, Box 31, folder 2 |
| Original Dimensions: | 6.25 x 8.75 inches |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Floods |
| Volcanoes |
| Advertising |
| Factories |
| Ephemera |
| Holidays |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| Men |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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