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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | The reverse side of a William Deering & Co. advertising card. The advertisement asserts that: "The strongest testimonials that could be given for the Deeri... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Illustrated inset in a Plan Manufacturing Company advertisement depicting a "Plano" rooster chasing a "competitor" rooster. The text reads: "The Light Runn... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | An ornate advertisement "showing the wonderful growth of the Plano Manufacturing Company" as symbolized by the hatching and growth of a chick into a mighty... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color advertising cartoon depicting Uncle Sam with arms outstretched over a Deering grain binder. Hybrids of binders by rival manufacturers are depicted on... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Cover of an Adriance, Platt & Company advertising catalog featuring mowers and reapers. The design is an arrangement of black text in various typefaces sur... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover of Adriance, Platt & Co. features an illustration of a farmer standing in a field holding a scythe and wiping his brow. In the background men... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of the January, 1897 issue of the Agricultural Advertising periodical. Slogan on front says: "Has been, is now and will continu... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Front and back sides of the Ann Arbor Co. brochure. The front cover includes an illustration of the factory. The inside is a spread with an illustration of... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Cover of the Ann Arbor Agricultural Company Annual Descriptive Catalog. Features an owl at the top with the words: "A Word to the Wise." At the bottom it s... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Features an illustration of a man using a mower with a team of two horses. Caption below reads: "Here a stump is to be passed, as you now discover, And a l... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Features an illustration of a buck in the foreground, and in the background a landscape, which includes on the right a man driving a horse-drawn agricultur... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The cover features four illustrations in each corner of men operating mowers and reapers in the field with teams of two horses. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Advertising card featuring a chromolithograph of young boys in a field. One boy is sitting on the seat of a Buckeye implement while holding the reins of fo... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Cover of Aultman & Co's Annual Catalogue of threshing machinery. Features two putti pulling aside a curtain to reveal a landscape scene of farmers working ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover and back cover. On the front is a shock of wheat, a bird and a butterfly, and on the bottom a farm landscape. On the back co... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph featuring a young girl wearing a red dress, hat and stockings. She is standing under a tree and gathering flowers in the folds of her dres... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph of two young girls and a young boy holding the bottom of a banner featuring Miller's New Model Vibrating Thresher. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover. Features a chromolithograph of a woman holding flowers in her skirt. The woman is standing next to a buck who is wearing a ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Back cover featuring a chromolithograph of a young boy driving a team of oxen pulling a Buckeye Twine Binder. At the bottom is a letter that says, in part:... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph featuring a view through a stone arch of two men in a field with a Sweepstakes threshing machine. |
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