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Tractor Ergonomics

Date: 08 21 1919
Description: Page from Motor Age magazine showing tractor operator's positions, including the Wichita, Eagle, Best, Frick, Moline, Fordson, Royer, and Cletrac tr...
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"A Lesson in Arithmatic" Happy Farmer Tractor Advertising

Date: 1917
Description: The cover of a La Crosse Tractor advertisement from M. Maloney Company, Syracuse, N.Y.
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P&O D Series Walking Plow

Date: 1918
Description: Brochure advertising Parlin & Orendorff's "D Series" walking plow. The inside spread features an illustration of the plow along with the caption: "A Dandy...
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P&O No.5 Walking Gang

Date: 1918
Description: Advertising brochure for Parlin & Orendorff's No.5 walking gang plow. The inside spread features a color illustration of the plow and a caption reading: "H...
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Heider Tractor Advertising Brochure

Date: 1916
Description: Front cover of a brochure produced by the Rock Island Plow Company advertising Heider tractors. The brochure features a color illustration of a man using a...
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Man Using Heider Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Color illustration of a man using a Heider tractor to work in a farm field. The image was part of the center spread of a pamphlet produced by Rock Island P...
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Russell and Company Advertising Booklet

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of a booklet titled, "The Russell & Co. Year Book of Tractors & Threshers." The text reads: "The Old Reliable Line. 78th Year. 1842 to 1919. Geo...
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Russell Kerosene Tractor Brochure

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of brochure advertising Russell standardized kerosene tractors. The cover features several photographs of tractors being used on farms and to h...
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Russell Tractors at Work

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior fold of a pamphlet advertising Russell tractors featuring three photographs of the tractor at work in a field. The text reads: "Interesting views ...
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Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
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Rock Island Tractor Plow Advertisement

Date: 1916
Description: Interior spread of a pamphlet produced by the Rock Island Plow Company to advertise their tractor plows. The pages feature illustrations of a man with the ...
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Heider Model C Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1916
Description: Interior spread of a pamphlet advertising the Heider Model C 12-20 horsepower tractor. Informative text is supplemented by illustrations of the tractor at ...
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Auto-Tiller Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Two interior pages of a pamphlet produced by the World Harvester Corporation to advertise the auto-tiller. The advertisement features a photograph of a man...
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Peoria Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for the Peoria Tractor Company featuring the silhouettes of a barn and a farmer on a tractor against a setting sun and an i...
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Townsend Oil Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Townsend Oil Tractor featuring an illustration of a man using a telescope to watch another man rake in a pile of money. The headline ...
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Waterloo Boy Gasoline Engines

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for Waterloo Boy gasoline engines. The color illustrations include the Webster oscillating magneto, Waterloo Boy pump jacks, Waterloo Boy pum...
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Hay Baler Line

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the hay baler line produced by the Kansas City Hay Press Company of Kansas City, Missouri. The advertisement features an illustration of ...
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Kardell Utility Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Kardell Utility tractor featuring an illustration at top of a man using the tractor and a disc harrow to plow a field. The headline t...
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The Greatest Weapon

Date: 1918
Description: Wartime advertisement for Kardell tractors featuring an illustration of a farmer using a team of two horses to work in a field, along with the headline: "L...
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La Crosse Model G Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the 12-24 horsepower La Crosse Model G tractor. The advertisement features an illustration of a farmer using the tractor and a disc harro...

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