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| 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: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising poster with calendar, featuring an illustration of a young girl with a parasol. Also features color illustrations of a horse-drawn... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for Adriance, Platt & Company featuring an illustration of a clock. Agricultural machinery parts serve as the hands of... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising pamphlet from Adriance, Platt & Company, manufacturers of Buckeye and Triumph farm machinery. Includes color illustrations of red p... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Accordion fold advertising card from Adriance, Platt & Company, manufacturers of Buckeye and Triumph farm machinery. Features illustrations on both sides o... |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the Empire Drill Company catalog. Features an image of a man driving a team of two horses (toward the viewer) while pulling an empire drill.... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Color catalog cover from the Hoosier Drill Company advertising Hoosier Seeders. Includes the slogan: "Good as the Wheat." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a Kentucky Drills Catalog 496. Manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company, Incorporated, Richmond, Indiana. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Kentucky Grain Drills catalog cover, no color. Features a woman in a long dress holding on to the bridle of a horse standing in a stall. In a smaller inset... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Interior page of a Kentucky Grain Drills catalog showing Excelsior Cider Mills in three sizes: Senior—Medium—Junior. Includes illustrations of two mills. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The New Kentucky Interchangeable Disk or Shoe Grain Drill catalog cover. Features an illustration from behind of a person wearing a straw hat and suspender... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Features at the top a black and white illustration of a man and woman sitting on a carriage seat (side view). The man is wearing gloves and is holding the ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Features at the top a black and white illustration of a woman standing and using a pump machine at a counter. Cut reads: "Pumps for House & Farm." The bott... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Features at the top an illustration of a woman standing holding a lawn mower. Cut reads: "Lawn Mowers and Lawn Swings." The bottom illustration shows a wom... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Features at the top an illustration of a tools. Cut reads: "Hardware and Tools." The bottom illustration shows a woman standing at a fence. Cut reads: "Wir... |
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