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Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements. Features a woman picking an apple with one hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the other. Als...
Manuscript

Country Life at Syene

Date: 01 1913
Description: Cover of manuscript keepsake souvenir scrapbook titled "Country Life at Syene." The photograph of canned items and bins of fruit and vegetables in the cell...
Photograph

International Wholesale Fruit Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Man sitting in an International Model G delivery truck along street curb. The truck was owned by G. Dattilo & Sons, wholesalers of fruits, and featured a c...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a young girl holding an apple behi...
Book or Pamphlet

Grow a Garden

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st...
Book or Pamphlet

Spraying Outfits Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester spraying outfits. Includes a colored photograph of an apple tree.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Musk Melons

Date: 1911
Description: A man and a boy use dollies to haul giant musk melons near a train. In red text on the upper center portion is the inscription, "How we do things at Bald K...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Peaches

Date: 1911
Description: Three young boys gather around a wheelbarrow filled with giant peaches. One of the boys is holding a peach that has been broken open, exposing its pit. Two...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Specimen of California Apples

Date: 1910
Description: Photomontage of two giant yellow apples resting on a flatbed train car. A group of apple trees stand behind the train. Red text in the upper left corner re...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Melon Party (without Melons)

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Melon Party." Four girls wearing bows and dresses are holding an object...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Melon Party (with Melons)

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of children with giant watermelons. Four girls wearing dresses and bows hold a giant slice of melon across them as they all bite into it. Two ...
Photograph

International Model F Market Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Two men stand near Riegel's Traveling Market truck, an International Model F (or 31) modified to hold baskets of bananas, pineapples, corn, lettuce, aspara...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Grapes

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a stack of giant grapes resting on a flatbed cart. The side of the cart bears the inscription, "Wells Fargo Company Express." Red text at...
Photograph

Gathering Raspberries at Grant's Point

Date: 1913
Description: Elizabeth Baker and Anne Ashley gathering raspberries and getting milk on the road to Grant's Point on Madeline Island.
Book or Pamphlet

John A. Salzer Seed Co. Catalog

Date: 1919
Description: Back cover of the 1919 John A. Salzer Seed Co. catalog featuring depictions of carrots, cabbage and a honeydew melon. The back cover also bears the slogan ...
Poster

"Do Your Bit--Save the Pit"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a drawing of a woman scraping pits from fruit into a barrel.Text reads "Stop. Save Prune pits Plum pits Cherry pits Date seeds Olive pits ...
Photograph

Delivery Truck Outside Grocery Store

Date: 1913
Description: International Model M delivery truck operated by William Brandfellner groceries parked outside the storefront. Produce is visible through the storefront, a...
Photograph

Irrigation Ditch and Apple Orchards

Date: 1910
Description: View of an irrigation ditch near apple orchards in. Mountains are in the distance. Caption reads: Irrigation Ditch And Apple Orchards, Near Cashmere, Wash....
Photograph

Judging at Apple Show

Date: 1910
Description: Two men pose while several others judge apples from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, at the national apple show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A...
Photograph

Agricultural Display in Classroom

Date: 10 27 1917
Description: View of an agricultural display at the Walkenhorst School Fair, consisting of vegetables, fruits, and canned goods lined up on a table. Various graphs, il...

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