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Adriance Buckeye Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of a catalog for Adriance, Platt & Company featuring an illustration of a woman in a wheat field. Adriance, Platt & Co. manufactured Buckeye and Triu...
Book or Pamphlet

R. Hornsby & Sons Catalog

Date: 12 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Advertising Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph illustration of a young bo...
Book or Pamphlet

Feed Your Hungry Crops

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an "educational" pamphlet published by International Harvester to promote the use of manure spreaders, fertilizers and lime spreaders. Features an...
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Excelsior harvesting machinery manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features a color illustration of a boy and girl in a ...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering and Company Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi...
Book or Pamphlet

Swedish Deering Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of a Deering farm implement catalog written in Swedish. Features an image of a "goddess" figure holding an International Harvester logo and a bundle ...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier Grain Drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased by Internati...
Book or Pamphlet

Heider Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for Heider tractors featuring a color illustration of a man gathering wheat in the foreground, and another farmer usi...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: The cover features men in front of a building with "Cash for Wheat" painted above the door. They are unloading bags from a wagon and lifting them by rope i...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 4

Date: 1892
Description: Fourth page of calendar for July and August, 1892. Features an illustration of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine in a field...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of wheat and flowers and a barbed wire fence in the foreground, framing a view of a field. There is a man in the di...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog for Deering Harvester Company. The headline reads: "Around the World on a Harvester," and features an illustration of men and women ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Finnish language catalog, featuring an illustration of an enlarged three leafed clover which is surrounded by clover flowers, wheat and a dragonfly. Small ...
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvester & Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: Catalog cover featuring miniature elves or fairies harvesting grain with axes.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvester & Binder Catalog

Date: 1883
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Covers

Date: 1888
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

Date: 1889
Description: Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I."
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1872
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
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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