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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame...
Print

Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Photograph

Asa Bennett Family

Date: 1903
Description: Asa Curtis Bennett family holding cranberry rakes and other manual farm implements. The family is gathered around an owl standing on the ground in front of...
Photograph

Churning Butter

Date: 
Description: Woman using a dasher churn to make butter. She is seated on the stoop of a house and a young girl watches behind her.
Print

Lauson 15-25 Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Lauson 15-25 tractor featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the tractor and plow in a field, surrounded by an Art Deco-styl...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Farm Tractors

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Eagle farm tractors. Features an illustration of an eagle and a photograph of a man using a tractor in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Farm Tractors

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Eagle farm tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a tractor to plow a field in front of a farmhouse.
Poster

Fight World Famine

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a boy battling a kettle of vultures. The boy is holding a pitchfork in one hand and making a fist with the other. Poste...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Commencement of Spring Work

Date: 01 1884
Description: Illustration of a man attaching a plow to a horse team. A boy is adjusting the bridle for one of the horses, and a dog sitting in the foreground is looking...

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