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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
Poster

International Crawler Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Color advertising poster for International industrial power equipment showing a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) excavating the site of the World's Fair. Inc...
Photograph

Farmall Cub on Display at Union Station

Date: 07 08 1947
Description: Farmall Cub tractor on display at Union Station. Signs advertise: "The New! Farmall Cub; Designed to Mechanize America's Small, Family-Size Farms," and inc...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland and World's Largest Cheese

Date: 1964
Description: Alice in Dairyland, and two employees of Steve's Cheese, sample a piece of the World's largest cheese. The gigantic piece of cheese was part of Wisconsin's...
Photograph

International D-30 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: Men loading cases of eggs onto an International D-30 truck parked in front of Geo. F. Wagner & Co. Inc. The truck has a farm scene painted on the side, inc...
Photograph

International S-Speed Truck

Date: 12 15 1923
Description: S-speed truck owned by House of A. Silz and parked on the street in front of Silz Garage. The side panel of the truck includes an advertisement for "Fancy ...
Photograph

10-20 Tractors used as Street Cleaners

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: Two International Harvester 10-20 industrial tractors modified to perform street cleaning in New York City. The tractors have enclosed cabs with the text: ...
Photograph

Construction Workers and Bulldozer

Date: 1969
Description: Construction workers and bulldozer on the street next to the construction site of the World Trade Center.
Photograph

Radio Stars with Mechanical Cow at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 03 24 1933
Description: Radio stars Jack Pearl and Cliff Hal posing with a mechanical cow and milker in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's ...
Photograph

New York Botanical Gardens

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Description: Water garden at the New York Botanical Gardens featuring palms and water lilies along a conservatory walkway.
Photograph

"Tired Haymakers"

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Description: Four children pose for a photograph, one holding a large wooden rake, while playing in the hay. Photograph published by C. E. Browne. Text in upper left co...
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American Cranberry Exchange Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the American Cranberry Exchange, which had a main office in New York City and a branch office in Chicago, with "Eatmor Cranberries" in a scro...
Document

Dr. Bodog F. Beck Moving Announcement — Bee Venom

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Description: A moving announcement from Dr. Bodog F. Beck. Announcing the removal of his office to 116 East 58th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, New York Cit...
Print

George P. Merrill Dinner Menu

Date: 12 15 1888
Description: Front and inside front covers of a menu with a three-dimensional violin, a stringed bow, a sprig of cloth holly leaves and three berries, and a blue ribbon...
Book or Pamphlet

J.S. Woodhouse Co. Inc. Catalog Cover

Date: 1932
Description: Front cover featuring a man on a tractor pulling an agricultural implement in a field.
Photograph

A. McDicken & Son Truck

Date: 07 16 1928
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck for A. McDicken & Son delivery truck. The truck bed has a stake body, and is stack...

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