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Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly Advertising Handbill

Date: 1858
Description: Advertising handbill for the Champion reaper and mower produced by Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly of Springfield, Ohio.
Painting

A Farm on the Ottowa River in Canada

Date: 1858
Description: On a very hot day in August 1858 Hölzlhuber visited the farm of Jack Smith, an Irishman who had immigrated to Canada eleven years previously with his wife ...
Painting

Hofmann's Farm between Marquette and Onota on Lake Superior

Date: 1858
Description: Hofmann and three sons had emigrated in 1848 from the Rhine region to northern Wisconsin. Initially they had no neighbors for a distance of four to five ho...
Painting

Joe Barry's Farm, A Day's Journey to the South of Odanah

Date: 1858
Description: Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest....
Print

McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine Directions

Date: 1858
Description: Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features illustrations of the machine in use in the field and alone. ...
Drawing

Engraving of Large Farm Binding Operation

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view of a large farm binding operation. Men are working in a field in the left foreground. Farm buildings and a farmhouse are across the road.

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