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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Edge T. Cope & Son reaper, with views of the side and rear delivery. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Russell & Company's Ohio Reaper and Mower, distributed by Chas. A. Taylor, agent for Peoria, Illinois. Features an illustration of... |
| Date: | 06 28 1865 |
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| Description: | The Great Fair held at Milwaukee for the benefit of the Wisconsin Soldiers Home. The 130x130 foot building was constructed especially for the ten-day fair.... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Broadsheet advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower, addressed to the farmers of Franklin and Cumberland Counties (Pennsylvania). Contains testimonials an... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features labeled drawings of the machine set up as a reaper and as a ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for C.H. McCormick and Brothers, featuring an engraved illustration of man operating a horse-drawn mower. Includes the text... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Engraved illustration of an elevated view of the "McCormick Reaper & Mower Works." Ships are on Lake Michigan in the background. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Cover of a British advertising brochure for "McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine, (of which 50,000 have now been made in the United States) with his new... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Page from an advertising brochure featuring "McCormick's Prize Self-Raker, . . . the only perfect reaper in lodged grain." Features an engraved illustratio... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Page from an advertising brochure for "McCormick's Prize Mower." Includes illustrations of award medals for the Paris Exposition Universal of 1867, and a m... |
| Date: | 08 20 1862 |
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| Description: | Confederate wildcat money used during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 11 23 1863 |
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| Description: | A receipt made out to Abraham Gilman for the $300 he paid to avoid serving his draft duty in the Civil War. |
| Date: | 06 1865 |
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| Description: | A handbill advertising for the Soldiers' Home Festival in Beloit, Wisconsin at the Union Hall on the evening of Friday, June 23, 1865. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | General Scott holds a large cone decorated with the stars and stripes. Scott is saying: "I'LL BLOCK YOUR GAME." He is about to snuff out Jefferson Davis, w... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Advertisement card that reads: "The Kirby. It Mows! It Reaps! It Rakes!" Includes a photograph that has been pasted onto the card of a man using the Kirby. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for plows, cultivators, harrows, corn planters, mowers, rakes, sulkies and gangs. |
| Date: | 01 29 1863 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for the Racine Advocate featuring a colored print of the American flag rising out of the clouds in front of the sun. The text above and b... |
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