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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion reaper and mower produced by Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly of Springfield, Ohio. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | On a very hot day in August 1858 Hölzlhuber visited the farm of Jack Smith, an Irishman who had immigrated to Canada eleven years previously with his wife ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hofmann and three sons had emigrated in 1848 from the Rhine region to northern Wisconsin. Initially they had no neighbors for a distance of four to five ho... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Mr. Klaner, who had just come from Elberfeld to Canada in 1858, purchased this farm and worked it with his wife and children. Initially they were plagued b... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest.... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Reaping and Mowing Machine. Features illustrations of the machine in use in the field and alone. ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Engraved illustration from an advertising booklet for Manny's Patent Adjustable reaper and mower. The page features two images of men operating the reaper ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Cover page of a Manny & Co. advertising circular featuring two illustrations of men using Manny's reaper and mower. The top illustration shows the reaper a... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large farm binding operation. Men are working in a field in the left foreground. Farm buildings and a farmhouse are across the road. |
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