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Back Cover of Excelsior Harvester & Binder Catalog

Date: 1883
Description: Back cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of miniature elves or fairies cavorting in a three-tiered stack of wheat shocks. One stands at the top...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover with the title: "A Group of Folding Binders" and four color illustrations. The top left illustration shows a man driving "The No. 7 Light Excels...
Print

Hussey's Reaping & Mowing Machine

Date: 1851
Description: Back side of direction sheet, featuring two illustrations of men using the machine in a field. The top illustration has the title: "This cut represents the...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Catalog cover featuring a color illustration of a man and a woman harvesting in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of three women walking with their arms around each other down a path between fields. One of the women is holding a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Print

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertising Card

Date: 1882
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a group of men looking at a man sitting on a Plano harvester and twine binder in front of an Ag...
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

Sandwich Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1880
Description: Front of advertising card for Adams & French harvester and self-binding harvesters. Features a color illustration of winged children harvesting in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of 4-page brochure featuring illustrations accompanying blocks of text explaining the features of Champion machines. The top left shows a man...
Book or Pamphlet

Williams Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Front cover featuring a rake, pitchfork, and shock of wheat advertising the catalog of harvesting machines.
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Front cover of catalog with a green cover for Wood's harvesting machines. Features an illustration of, at the top, a view of a town, flanked by two women, ...
Book or Pamphlet

William Anson Wood Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Front and back cover with gold and blue ink. On the front cover a woman representing Europa is giving a coin to another woman representing America. Other i...
Poster

Crimean War Themed Advertising Broadside

Date: 05 1854
Description: This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high...
Photograph

Loading Hay

Date: 08 1898
Description: August and Alexander Krueger loading hay with pitchforks onto a wagon with a two-horse team attached. August is standing on top of the wagon while Alexande...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — October & November

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. October features a man using a hoe in a field. November features a drawing of the Buckeye Twine Mills.
Drawing

Ellis and Steward Motor for Harvesting Machinery Patent Cover

Date: 02 16 1897
Description: Patent No. 577,105, Patented February 16, 1897 by G.H. Ellis and J.F. Steward. Page one of two.
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

McCormick Day in Broken Bow

Date: 1898
Description: Original caption reads: "1898 One days delivery of McCormack [McCormick] Binders By O.P. Perley Broken Bow Neb."
Photograph

Extreme Tornado Devastation

Date: 1899
Description: Stereograph of the devastation caused by a tornado. All that remains of trees are the main branches and trunks, some with building debris caught in them. P...

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