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McCormick Advertising Handbill
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Handbill and order form advertising reaper and mower manufactured by Cyrus Hall McCormick. This describes the gold medal awarded at the "Great French Exhibition" at Paris in 1855.
December 1856
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
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