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Book or Pamphlet

Holt Combined Harvesters

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Holt Combined Harvesters. The illustration is of a hillside field colored yellow in which silhouetted farmers are usin...
Print

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 
Description: Flyer advertising the upcoming performance of The Cradle Will Rock at Maxine Elliott's Theatre. The flyer was done by The Federal Theatre program and iden...
Print

Menu for 16th Annual Banquet, Wholesale Saddlery Association

Date: 06 16 1904
Description: Front cover and menu listing for the 16th annual banquet of the Wholesale Saddlery Association, with a radiating fleur-de-lis, a grey horse, a saddle super...
Print

Northwestern Amateur Boating Association Banquet Menu

Date: 07 13 1871
Description: Menu printed on taupe silk for a banquet given to the Northwestern Amateur Boating Association by the Milwaukee Boat Club at Newhall House. At the top is a...
Photograph

Sherwin Gillett

Date: 1903
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Sherwin Gillett in an oval frame.
Photograph

Emma and Elena Schmitt

Date: 
Description: Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but t...
Photograph

Couple Standing in a Field

Date: 1921
Description: Unidentified smiling couple standing in a field near an automobile.
Print

R.M.S.S. Magdalena Dinner Menu

Date: 08 09 1890
Description: One-page menu from the R.M.S.S. Magdalena of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, with a parrot and a cockatiel perched on a branch above the compan...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
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....
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: The cover features men in front of a building with "Cash for Wheat" painted above the door. They are unloading bags from a wagon and lifting them by rope i...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Banner Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Top of cover reads: "Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Buckeye Banner Binder." Features an illustration of a man and woman discussing the set up ...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover for "The Standard Mowing Machines."
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvester & Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: Catalog cover featuring miniature elves or fairies harvesting grain with axes.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvester & Binder Catalog

Date: 1883
Description: Back cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of miniature elves or fairies cavorting in a three-tiered stack of wheat shocks. One stands at the top...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Front and back cover of a catalog for harvesting machines. The cover features a color illustration of shocks of hay in a field surrounded by sun rays in th...
Book or Pamphlet

Nichols, Shepard & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1871
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring "The Improved, Grain Saving 'Vibrator' Threshers."
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Stationary Gasoline Engine

Date: 10 08 1904
Description: Front cover of a International Harvester Company's Stationary Gasoline Engine manual. Three-quarter view of engine in the lower center. Front cover reads: ...
Book or Pamphlet

Holiday Greetings Program

Date: 12 20 1942
Description: Front and back cover of a folded, four-page International Harvester Co. Athletic Association program. Lists the officers, board of directors, and committee...

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