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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Buckeye mower and reaper with self-raker manufactured by Adriance, Platt & Company. Features an illustration of a f... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the St. Paul harvester and Appleby cord binder manufactured by the St. Paul Harvester Works. The cover features a black... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A view from the roof across an unpaved road towards a building across the street from A.L. Dahl's photography studio. The two-story storefront is a general... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Firs... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a farmer in a barnyard w... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Advertising card produced by Warder, Mitchell and Company, manufacturers of the Champion line of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of a... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Flyer and order form advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower. Features the headline "15,000 sold in the last 4 years" under an illustration of the reaper... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Cover page of a Manny & Co. advertising circular featuring two illustrations of men using Manny's reaper and mower. The top illustration shows the reaper a... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | The front side of an advertising card showing a farmer reaching over a fence for a McCormick machine. There is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick on the fence a... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | The back view of a farmer reaching over a fence. He stands next to wrecked farming machinery, and the words, "Which Side Of The Fence Are You On?" Other te... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional cards showing the plentiful corn crops of John Carstens, created to attract farmers to the agricultural ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Features an illustration of a buck in the foreground, and in the background a landscape, which includes on the right a man driving a horse-drawn agricultur... |
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