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Treading Grain with Horses

Date: 1885
Description: Back cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog from 1885. The illustration shows horses with elaborate tack treading grain surrounded by men ...
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Agricultural Machinery Companies' Fair Competition Pledge Broadsheet

Date: 1885
Description: Broadsheet describing a pledge made by agricultural machinery manufacturers to compete fairly with one another, and not try to break up competitors' sales....
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Kansas City Manufacturers Message to Implement Dealers

Date: 1885
Description: Broadsheet describing the opposition of numerous smaller agricultural machinery manufacturers to "...the monopoly which certain implement dealers, here in ...
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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1885
Description: Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a farmer in patched and ragg...
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Wagon Industry Advertisement

Date: 1885
Description: Advertisement of the Hurlbut Manufacturing Company of Racine, the home of several wagon manufacturing firms during the 19th Century. Hurlbut began manufac...
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McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved bird's-eye view illustration of the "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's Works," including railroad cars, smoke from smokestacks and factory wo...
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Boiling the Beer

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved image of a man adding ingredients from a barrel to a boiling vat of beer.
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Watson Manufacturing Co. Advertisement

Date: 1885
Description: Advertisement for Watson-Deering Twine Binder for 1885. The illustration features a rear view of a man using a team of horses to pull a twine binder throug...

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