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Poster

"McCormick's Machines" Advertising Poster

Date: 1870
Description: Advertising poster depicting a mower, reaper, hay wagon, and family picnic in a rural setting. Printed by Edward Mendel for C.H. McCormick & Bro. Includes ...
Photograph

Steamboat "Clyde"

Date: 1870
Description: The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura...
Photograph

Unloading the Arkansas

Date: 1870
Description: The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl...
Book or Pamphlet

Dodge and Stevenson Catalog

Date: 1870
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Dodge's patent Reaper & Mower, Self-Raker. The cover features an engraved illustration of a woman leaning on a hor...
Book or Pamphlet

E. Ball & Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Cover of advertising catalog for E. Ball & Company, "Manufacturers of The World mower and reaper and Tornado thresher." The cover features a color chromoli...
Photograph

McCormick Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1870
Description: McCormick Self-Rake reaper in front of a fence or wall in a factory(?) yard.
Photograph

Grain Binder

Date: 1870
Description: Engineering(?) photograph of a grain binder. The binder may be experimental.
Photograph

Wing House with Windmill Structure

Date: 1870
Description: View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation.
Photograph

Men with Horses and Wagons near Barn

Date: 1870
Description: Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background.
Photograph

Farm with Traditional Norwegian Sval House

Date: 1870
Description: People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg...
Photograph

Family Standing near their Barn

Date: 1870
Description: A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper.
Photograph

Pasture with Brick House and Barns

Date: 1870
Description: A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it.
Photograph

Farmyard with Man and Team of Horses

Date: 1870
Description: Farmyard with machinery in foreground. A man stands with a team of large horses, perhaps Percherons. Two women stand on the front porch of the farmhouse.
Photograph

Family in front of Farmstead

Date: 1870
Description: A family in a wagon, on horseback and standing in front of farmstead that has a stone fence.
Photograph

View of Farmyard with Windmill

Date: 1870
Description: A farmyard, with a windmill and boy standing on top. Included in the view is a barn, upright and wing frame house.
Photograph

Michael Johnson Engesether Family

Date: 1870
Description: The Michael Johnson Engesether family is seen from across a field standing at the side of a stone house with a frame addition. The house has a small front ...
Print

Ball Mower and Reaper Advertisement

Date: 1870
Description: Advertising brochure for the Ohio Mower and Reaper manufactured by Ephraim Ball. The advertisement features a line drawing of men using two mowers pulled b...
Photograph

Lodi

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of Lodi, Wisconsin. A field is in the foreground, and the town beyond and hills in the far background.
Photograph

Fox River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view across what may be the Fox River, or a field with snow on the ground. There are large buildings behind a fence in the background. Caption ...
Print

Veterinarian Broadside

Date: 1870
Description: Broadside issued by veterinarian E.W. Palmer of Garden Prairie, Iowa, advertising his large animal services including his weekly Saturday clinic at Moffatt...

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