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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo... |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for La Crosse Happy Farmer Tractor (Models A and B) featuring color illustration of tractors. |
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| Description: | The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with schematic. A photograph at the top shows men with tractors and wagons advertising the "Kansas City Tractor Show." ... |
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| Description: | La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with multiple inserts. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that re... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The stencil list department of The W.S. Ponton Company. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of the January, 1897 issue of the Agricultural Advertising periodical. Slogan on front says: "Has been, is now and will continu... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Front and back sides of the Ann Arbor Co. brochure. The front cover includes an illustration of the factory. The inside is a spread with an illustration of... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal... |
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| Description: | Colored illustration of a man in a hat and boots driving the Gregg Reaper in a field, pulled by two horses. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with color illustration of a woman sitting on a ledge with one hand on her temple and the other hand holding a drafting compass. Under her ar... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front and back of advertising cards for the Excelsior Gleaner and Binder. Front features illustrations of a man using the machinery in a field. The back fe... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Two panels with color illustrations of men using grain binders in a field, each is pulled by a single horse. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man driving a tractor and pulling a spring tooth digger in a field. The slogan: "Cultivate with Kovar" is over... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a globe among clouds. Small oval inset illustrations are of farmers working in fields in Africa, A... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator." |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog featuring an illustration of a man using a team of horses to use the Improved Iron Clad Mower in a field. |
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