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Book or Pamphlet

E. Ball & Co. Mower and Reaper Catalog

Date: 1867
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for E. Ball & Company, "manufacturers of The World mower and reaper, and Tornado thresher." Cover features a color illustr...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra...
Book or Pamphlet

Younglove, Massey & Co. Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Younglove, Massey & Co., manufacturers of agricultural equipment. The cover features an engraved illustration of a hors...
Print

Edge T. Cope & Son Reaper Advertisement

Date: 1861
Description: Advertisement for the Edge T. Cope & Son reaper, with views of the side and rear delivery.
Print

Russell & Company Reaper and Mower Advertisement

Date: 1866
Description: Advertising brochure for Russell & Company's Ohio Reaper and Mower, distributed by Chas. A. Taylor, agent for Peoria, Illinois. Features an illustration of...
Print

McCormick Reaper and Mower Handbill

Date: 1862
Description: Broadsheet advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower, addressed to the farmers of Franklin and Cumberland Counties (Pennsylvania). Contains testimonials an...
Print

McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine Directions

Date: 1867
Description: Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features labeled drawings of the machine set up as a reaper and as a ...
Book or Pamphlet

German Wisconsin Pamphlet Cover

Date: 1868
Description: Cover of a 31-page pamphlet promoting Wisconsin to German immigrants, which translates to read "Wisconsin. An Account of the Population, soil, climate, Com...
Photograph

Commercial Area near Lake Michigan

Date: 1868
Description: Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The...
Print

La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
Poster

Under the Gaslight Poster

Date: 1867
Description: Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w...
Print

McCormick's Prize Harvesters

Date: 1868
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for C.H. McCormick and Brothers, featuring an engraved illustration of man operating a horse-drawn mower. Includes the text...
Print

McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1868
Description: Engraved illustration of an elevated view of the "McCormick Reaper & Mower Works." Ships are on Lake Michigan in the background.
Print

McCormick Reaper Advertising Brochure

Date: 1862
Description: Cover of a British advertising brochure for "McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine, (of which 50,000 have now been made in the United States) with his new...
Print

Advertisement for McCormick Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1868
Description: Page from an advertising brochure featuring "McCormick's Prize Self-Raker, . . . the only perfect reaper in lodged grain." Features an engraved illustratio...
Print

McCormick Mower Advertisement

Date: 1868
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for "McCormick's Prize Mower." Includes illustrations of award medals for the Paris Exposition Universal of 1867, and a m...
Book or Pamphlet

Single Mower Advertising Booklet

Date: 1862
Description: Cover of an advertising booklet for John H. Manny's Single Mower. It features an illustration of men using the mower, surrounded by informative text.
Print

Soldiers' Home Festival

Date: 06 1865
Description: A handbill advertising for the Soldiers' Home Festival in Beloit, Wisconsin at the Union Hall on the evening of Friday, June 23, 1865.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

American Velocipede Advertisement

Date: 03 1869
Description: Engraved image of a man riding an American Improved Velocipede.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1868
Description: Features an illustration of a man using a mower with a team of two horses. Caption below reads: "Here a stump is to be passed, as you now discover, And a l...

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