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| Date: | 1884 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bulletin urging farmers to kill grasshoppers with poisoned bran bait, featuring an illustration of a hand spreading bait for grasshoppers to eat. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Illustration made for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to demonstrate the danger of pests, including diseases carried by insects... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Includes illustrations of McCormick's "first" reaper and McCor... |
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| Description: | Print of seven insects and one mammal with human faces. Scientific names printed beneath each image. "Melanoplus differentialis" grasshopper, "Eurypelma he... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover and back cover. On the front is a shock of wheat, a bird and a butterfly, and on the bottom a farm landscape. On the back co... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Postcard for Buckeye Mowers, Droppers, Table Rakes and Binders. Color illustrations of butterflies and flowers over a gold and yellow background surround a... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Finnish language catalog, featuring an illustration of an enlarged three leafed clover which is surrounded by clover flowers, wheat and a dragonfly. Small ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a Deering Harvester Company brochure for twine. The cover reads: "The Original Spinners," and "The World's Greatest Spinners, Deeri... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Front and back of catalog for the Eureka Mower. Features on the front a color illustration of a man riding the mower drawn by two horses. An umbrella beari... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of catalog, featuring on the front an illustration of birds, mice, and flying insects near a wheat field. The back cover reads: "Manuf... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog with the title: "The Kirby Mower and Reaper." The "K" and "Y" letters of Kirby are drawn as shocks of wheat, and the "IRB" letters a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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 ... |
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