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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | Man showing pest damage to a tree. Original caption reads: "Showing where tree had been girdled by pitch moth larvae, and later grew larger above and below... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Postcard for Buckeye Mowers, Droppers, Table Rakes and Binders. Color illustrations of butterflies and flowers over a gold and yellow background surround a... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Finnish language catalog, featuring an illustration of an enlarged three leafed clover which is surrounded by clover flowers, wheat and a dragonfly. Small ... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Front and back of catalog for the Eureka Mower. Features on the front a color illustration of a man riding the mower drawn by two horses. An umbrella beari... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Saint Paul harvester and cord binder, manufactured by the Saint Paul Harvester Works. The cover features a chromol... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Brochure for the Paris Exposition with text in French. Two inside spreads show a man on the left using a team of two horses to pull a harvesting machine in... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a cricket or grasshopper serenading a large trout swimming underwater. The insect is playing a violin, while standing on... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view across water towards a fisherman wearing waders and holding his spinning rod and creel is crouching on his hands... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Elaborate pen-and-ink drawing of two fisherman at night sitting in a small motorboat (named PAM) on a lake. Large trout are looming over their heads with a... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from across a stream towards a cigar-smoking fisherman (probably Sid Boyum) on the opposite side of the bank. He ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man sitting at a table (inscribed PAM) and playing cards with a salmon and a muskelunge (muskie). The muskelunge appea... |
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