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Minneapolis Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Minneapolis Harvester Works, manufacturers of twine binders and other agricultural implements, featuring a chromol...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of D.M. Osborne Catalog

Date: 1899
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a schoolmaster in front of men from many nations. Includes the caption "all natio...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover with the title: "A Group of Folding Binders" and four color illustrations. The top left illustration shows a man driving "The No. 7 Light Excels...
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Company Pamphlet

Date: 1897
Description: Front and back cover, and two inside pages of a small pamphlet with text and illustrations in blue ink. The front has a small illustration of a man wearing...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1891
Description: Front cover of catalog for mowers, reapers and self-binding harvesting machinery. Features a color illustration of a portrait of a man with a beard wearing...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of 4-page brochure featuring illustrations accompanying blocks of text explaining the features of Champion machines. The top left shows a man...
Book or Pamphlet

D.S. Morgan & Co. Brochure

Date: 1888
Description: Color illustration, across 4 panels of the brochure, titled "Triumph Wins." A group of jockeys are racing horses on a racetrack, with a group of people wat...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — February & March

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ...
Book or Pamphlet

C.B. Reynold's Tent

Date: 1886
Description: Illustration of C.B. Reynold's tent, in which he offered liberal lectures free of charge. A lectern and chairs are set up inside the tent. The sign on the ...
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Richard W. Thompson

Date: 1850
Description: Studio portrait of Richard Thompson sitting in a chair and holding a cane.
Book or Pamphlet

Moses Kilgore

Date: 1880
Description: Portrait of Moses Kilgore.

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