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Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1887
Description: View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol from the pages of the Wisconsin Blue Book.
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Wheat Crop Production Chart

Date: 1887
Description: "The Yearly Wheat Crop in Principal Countries." Chart showing yearly wheat crop production by country for 1880, found inside the back cover of an 1887 McCo...
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McCormick Binders Drawn by Camels in Russia

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration from an 1887 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog showing a row of McCormick binders being pulled by camels. The original caption rea...
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McCormick Binders Pulled by Oxen in Italy

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration from an 1887 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog showing McCormick binders being pulled by oxen in a large field in Italy. The captio...
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McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration of the McCormick Reaper Works (factory) from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo.
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McCormick Grain Binder Illustration

Date: 1887
Description: Color illustration of a "McCormick Steel Harvester and Binder" from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo.
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Illustration of Cyrus McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration of men harvesting grain with Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The illustration appeared in an advertising folder produced by the McCormick Ha...
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McCormick No. 3 Steel Mower Illustration

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration of a "McCormick Steel Mower No. 3" from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo.
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"Kearsarge and Alabama: Hauling Down the Flag"

Date: 1887
Description: "Kearsarge and Alabama: Hauling Down the Flag." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co. of Boston.
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St. Valentine's Day

Date: 1887
Description: Valentine's Day card with tan fringe and tasseled cords. A border of white daisies surrounds a smaller zig-zag border. Inside the border is the text "St. V...
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Pittsburg Landing, Battle of Shiloh

Date: 1887
Description: Engraving of Pittsburg Landing taken from a photograph a few days after the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), which occurred on April 6-7, 1862. The image sho...
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Edward P. Allis

Date: 1887
Description: Vignetted engraved lithograph portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturin...

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