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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog featuring "The Improved, Grain Saving 'Vibrator' Threshers." |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a globe among clouds. Small oval inset illustrations are of farmers working in fields in Africa, A... |
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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: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog for "Plows and Plow Making as shown by the Oliver Chilled Plow Works." |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front cover of booklet advertising the Oliver Chilled Plow Works. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I." |
| 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: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog with the title: "The Kirby Mower and Reaper." The "K" and "Y" letters of Kirby are drawn as shocks of wheat, and the "IRB" letters a... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog for mowers, reapers and self-binding harvesting machinery. Features a color illustration of a portrait of a man with a beard wearing... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a key with a round frame around an inset scene of an Osborne binding machine in a field. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of advertising brochure for Patterson and Brothers, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Patterson, Ontario, Canada. Features a chromolit... |
| 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: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Front cover with gold, red and green ink. There is an oval inset illustration of the factory building on the bottom left. |
| 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: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Front cover for the harvester and twine binder, with a color illustration in red and blue ink of various patterns, and a vase holding stalks of wheat. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat under one arm, and holding a hand scythe in the other hand. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Back cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of children riding on a harvesting machine pulled by three boys. The caption reads: "It is as simple a... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i... |
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