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| Description: | Die cut hand sickle (reaping hook) shaped card, with a loop of string. The string holds two small die cut hay bundles, with text on both sides of each bund... |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of 8 page booklet advertising Deering wares. Each page features an illustration and a verse, to describe the features of the All Steel... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a catalog for Emerson Farm Implements. Features an illustration on the front in red, black and orange, of an older man reading an Emerson ca... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover reads: "The Emerson Product, A Book of the Shop." Features three color illustrations, with, top to bottom: the Emerson factory; a street view... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Forty-ninth annual catalog cover featuring an orange and blue illustration, over a gray background, of two yoked oxen. Directly behind the oxen a man weari... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man wearing a straw hat and eyeglasses, holding a miniature agricultural implement in his hand. Text reads: "T... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover, front and back. Title reads: "Out of the Depths," and features an illustration of a clown suppressing a laugh, with the text: "Emerson Farm ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | "The Dealer's Dream" cover features an illustration of a man asleep in bed at the bottom of the catalog. Above him his dream is contained in a frame. The m... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a young man and an older woman in a clothing shop. The woman is pointing at the young man, and the sales clerk s... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back cover of catalog featuring two illustrations with the title: "A Pointer." The top illustration, captioned: "Union is Strength," shows a dog lying in t... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover for "The Standard Mowing Machines." |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back of the catalog cover. Illustration on front shows a group of children looking and laughing at dog that has been costumed in a hat, cape and ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with an illustration behind the company name of a stylized dragon dangling a chain with a disc that reads: "49th Year." The dates 1849 and 18... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of an Empire Drill on a map of the northeast United States. A railroad train is traveling east to west from Albany ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with the title: "The Three Greatest Empires," features an illustration of an Empire Drill in the foreground, and in the background a train tr... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman wearing a long gown with a radiating star on her chest and holding a globe that reads: "53 Years." (1849... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of catalog. Front features a yellow background behind the text: "Empire Drill Co., 1849-1903," and an illustration of an Empire Drill.... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Front and back of 8-page foldout color brochure. Front cover advertises the "All Steel Folding Platform Binder & Mower." Back cover features a horizontal i... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Inside half-page spread of foldout brochure. Features an illustration of the Esterly Enclosed Gear Mower showing Raising Device. Includes an inset on botto... |
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