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Poster

Eureka Mower Advertising Poster

Date: 1885
Description: Advertising poster for the Eureka Mower Company featuring color illustration of a well-dressed farmer riding a mower pulled by two horses. Trees, mountains...
Poster

McCormick "Battle of Shiloh" Advertising Poster

Date: 1885
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a McCormick binder stored in a shed in the middle of the ...
Book or Pamphlet

Minneapolis Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Minneapolis Harvester Works, manufacturers of twine binders and other agricultural implements, featuring a chromol...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Farm Machinery Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Buckeye mowers, table rakes, droppers, and grain binders manufactured by Aultman, Miller & Company.
Map or Atlas

Mayville, Wis. Dodge County

Date: 1885
Description: Bird's-eye map of Mayville.
Photograph

DuCharme House

Date: 1885
Description: The home and fur-trading post of Col. Dominique DuCharme. The portion of the structure on the left was built by DuCharme in 1791. The right portion was add...
Print

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 ...
Print

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...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of a young boy...
Poster

Monitor and Merrimac Advertising Poster

Date: 1885
Description: "Terrific Engagement between the 'Monitor' and 'Merrimac.'" Battle scene of the Civil War battle produced by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Smal...
Painting

Farm Painting

Date: 1885
Description: Painting of Paul Seifert farm showing rock formations in background and farm buildings nearby.
Print

McCormick Family Farm

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s...
Print

McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick harvester and twine binder in a field.
Painting

Seifert Painting

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of farm.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest Party

Date: 1885
Description: Large group of cranberry harvesters posing with implements. Many of the individuals are wearing boutonnières and corsages made from cranberry sprigs. Many ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1885
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat under one arm, and holding a hand scythe in the other hand.
Print

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...
Photograph

Team of Oxen in Front of Sod Shanty

Date: 1885
Description: Team of oxen in front of a sod shanty on the Dakota plains. Two men stand behind the team on the right. The animals are hitched to a plow.
Photograph

Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Mississippi River. 1885-90. Across the field in the foreground are people with an American flag standing along the sho...

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