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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
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

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

C. Aultman & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover and back cover. On the front is a shock of wheat, a bird and a butterfly, and on the bottom a farm landscape. On the back co...
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

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Buckeye catalog cover for harvesting machinery featuring an illustration of a buckeye tree with nuts in the grass below. Text on bottom left reads: "Ohio, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Bradley's Reapers Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Catalog cover for Reaper's, Mowers & Horse Rakes. Features an arrangement of black and white text of various typefaces, over a red background. It is also e...
Book or Pamphlet

J.I. Case & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1872
Description: Catalog cover reads: "J.I. Case, Manufacturers of Improved Threshing Machines, Steam Engines, Horse Powers &c." Features illustrations of vegetables, frui...
Book or Pamphlet

Craver & Steele Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog cover featuring text over a decorative background that includes stalks of wheat, and a crown. Text reads: "Craver Harvester King, Appleby's Crownin...
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

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Catalog cover with framed headline: "Forty Harvest Seasons 1858-1898." Features a styled design of stalks of wheat, poppy flowers, and a sickle.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1899
Description: Catalog cover with the headline: "Light Draft Ideals." Two eagles flying in the sky, and a border of wheat and flowers, are illustrated to look like a carv...
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

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Front and back cover of a catalog for harvesting machines. The cover features a color illustration of shocks of hay in a field surrounded by sun rays in th...
Book or Pamphlet

D.S. Morgan & Co. Catalog Covers

Date: 1891
Description: Front and back covers of a catalog for Triumph harvesting machinery and the Morgan Spading Harrow. Features on the front are illustrations of stalks of whe...
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

Oliver Chilled Plow Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of catalog for "Plows and Plow Making as shown by the Oliver Chilled Plow Works."

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