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Russell & Co. Farm Equipment Catalog Cover
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Front cover of an advertising catalog for Russell & Company farm equipment. Includes illustrations of portable steam engines, steam traction engines and threshers framed by birds and wheat. Russell & Co. was established in 1842 and incorporated in 1878.
1881
Russell & Company (Massillon, Ohio)
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WHi 22749
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