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| Description: | Front and back of three advertising cards with color illustrations of a woman named "Minnie" and the same man in three different scenes. The front of the l... |
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| Description: | Advertising card with color illustration of a man on hands and knees in the water holding the end of a firearm which is sticking out of the water. His hat ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Two advertising cards featuring a color illustration of a caricature of a baseball player. The card on the left is titled: "A close Affair. Hugging the Bat... |
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| Description: | Color portrait of James Oliver pasted onto a card. "When I sell a plow, I make a friend." |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the Oliver Patent Chilled Plow. On the back is a description of the advantages of the plow. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Advertisement card that reads: "The Kirby. It Mows! It Reaps! It Rakes!" Includes a photograph that has been pasted onto the card of a man using the Kirby. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front of advertising card featuring an illustration of a man woken up by a horse, on whose side is written: "Nightmare." Text above and below reads: "Why d... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a group of men looking at a man sitting on a Plano harvester and twine binder in front of an Ag... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Calendar for Light Running Plano binders, mowers-headers, reapers-hayrakes, & sickle grinders. The calendar has an illustration of a man using Jone's Lever... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front of advertising card for Adams & French harvester and self-binding harvesters. Features a color illustration of winged children harvesting in a field. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Advertising card with the heading: "To make hens lay, use Sheridan's condition powder." Features a color illustration of a man in a hen house on the left h... |
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| Description: | Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using the plow in a field with a team of two horses. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for plows, cultivators, harrows, corn planters, mowers, rakes, sulkies and gangs. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Features a color illustration of a man using a horse-drawn sulky rake. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front of card with an illustration over an orange background of a man using a team of horses to pull a reaper in a field. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of two men, each using a team of horses in a field to pull harvesting machines. |
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| Description: | Round card with an illustration of an eccentric wheel, with text around the edges that says: "Eccentric wheel increases power when sheaves are being tied." |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Watson-Deering Twine Binder for 1885. The illustration features a rear view of a man using a team of horses to pull a twine binder throug... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Front page of 4-page advertisement with an illustration featuring a man using a team of horses to pull a grain drill in a field. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Back of advertising card for the enclosed-gear mower. Included is a list of its features with the heading: "It has excellent features which are peculiar to... |
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