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Photograph

Midway Pleasance, Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: Columbian Exposition; North side of Midway Pleasance viewed from Madison Avenue.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
Print

D.M. Osborne Factory Buildings

Date: 1893
Description: Inside spread of an advertising folder showing factory buildings of the D.M. Osborne Company. The top center illustration is the Office and Factory; bottom...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne World's Fair Souvenir

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Flyer

Date: 1893
Description: Flyer describing field trial victories by the McCormick binder. Features a small illustration of a farmer using the horse-drawn machine followed by testim...
Poster

Deering Columbian Exposition Advertising Poster

Date: 1893
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustration of a crowd gathered around a Deering grain binder and mower at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Print

FIELD TESTS are "NO GOOD" For a "No Good" Machine

Date: 1893
Description: An advertisement for the McCormick No. 4 Steel Mower in the December edition of The Farmer's Advance, a publication of the McCormick Harvesting Mach...
Photograph

Scenes of McCormick Triumphs

Date: 1893
Description: Illustration showing the sites of International expositions at which McCormick machines won awards between 1851 and 1893. Includes the text: "McCormick won...
Historical Object

Singer Advertising Card Box

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of a box produced by The Singer Manufacturing Company, which holds "Costumes of All Nations" souvenir cards, created for the 1893 World's Columbian E...
Print

Plano Advertisement with Roosters

Date: 1893
Description: Illustrated inset in a Plan Manufacturing Company advertisement depicting a "Plano" rooster chasing a "competitor" rooster. The text reads: "The Light Runn...
Print

Plano Manufacturing Advertisement with Roosters

Date: 1893
Description: An ornate advertisement "showing the wonderful growth of the Plano Manufacturing Company" as symbolized by the hatching and growth of a chick into a mighty...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — December

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar back, with the month of December. Features an illustration of the Buckeye Binders and Mowers Factory buildings. In the foreground on the right a y...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — August & September

Date: 1893
Description: 1893 calendar, with the months of August & September. Features an illustration of a woman holding a light. Around her are books, telescope, and other objec...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — October and November

Date: 1893
Description: 1893 calendar with the months of October and November. Features an illustration of a woman sitting at a desk using a telegraph key, near the words: "The Ca...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — February and March

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — April & May

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar, with the months of April and May, 1893. Features an illustration of a man standing holding the reins of two horses pulling a Buckeye mower. Below...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of Buckeye harvesting machinery catalog, featuring a group of men and horses resting under the shade of a tree. In the background is a field wi...

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