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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster showing a little man with a corn cob body, a shield in the shape of the International Harvester logo, and a spear made of a stalk of gra... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertising card for William Deering & Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a man showing "The Deering Binder, carefully studied and ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a brochure advertising the Case Centennial Plow. The brochure is titled "Plows on Parade" and tells the history of the steel plow business t... |
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| Description: | Flyer for a Plano grain binder, featuring a caricature of a competitor's machine, manufactured by "Horsekiller & Co." The message is that the Plano binder... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Cartoon illustrating "the layman's idea of how horse-power is determined." The cartoon shows an automobile in a "tug-of-war" with a large number of horses. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cartoon on the last page of a McCormick catalog. The cartoon depicts the World's Fair field-trials in Wayne, Illinois, at which the McCormick mower prevail... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for a mounted corn picker for the F-12 tractor. Features a cartoon drawing of two birds and two ears of corn staring at a ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A cartoon comparing two farmer's experiences, one with McCormick machinery, and one with "ordinary" binders. The caption at the bottom reads: "He Laughs Be... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color advertising cartoon depicting Uncle Sam with arms outstretched over a Deering grain binder. Hybrids of binders by rival manufacturers are depicted on... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Sales flyer with the title: "My Customers," featuring a cartoon of a mother hen (salesman) with her chicks (customers). Banners and corn cobs are labeled w... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for W series tractors, featuring a color illustration of a McCormick-Deering WD-6 standard tractor. The cover also includes... |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | Cartoon entitled :"A Hint to The Sceptic" featuring a conversation between a farmer and a mule, intended to entice farmers into trying Smith Form-a-Tractor... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Oconomowoc Canning Company, with a can of Teenie Weenie Wisconsin peas featuring a label with Teenie Weenie figures emptying pods of peas... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Port Huron Wild Cat agitator and the Port Huron "rusher-thresher." The page features illustrations of a wild cat ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertising illustration promoting the use of tractors and engine power over horses and horse-drawn implements. Shows Uncle Sam writing the words "Modern I... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | An original cartoon given to Ralph Widmer by the famous cartoonist, Walt Wetterberg, whose cartoon, "Ada The Aryshire," appears regularly in the "Farm Jour... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring miniature elves or fairies harvesting grain with axes. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| 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... |
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