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Book or Pamphlet

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

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

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

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

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."
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

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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1881
Description: Front cover with gold, red and green ink. There is an oval inset illustration of the factory building on the bottom left.
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Front cover for the harvester and twine binder, with a color illustration in red and blue ink of various patterns, and a vase holding stalks of wheat.
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1885
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat under one arm, and holding a hand scythe in the other hand.
Book or Pamphlet

Williams Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Front cover featuring a rake, pitchfork, and shock of wheat advertising the catalog of harvesting machines.
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1881
Description: Wood's mowers, featuring an illustration of a man using a team of horses to pull a mower in a field.
Print

Complimentary Dinner to Judge Chas. E. Dyer Menu

Date: 1888
Description: Card menu for a dinner for Judge Charles E. Dyer, given by his "legal friends in Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee Club." At the top is a stalk of wheat interlac...

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