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International Truck Calendar

Date: 1920
Description: Calendar advertising "International Motor Trucks." Features a color illustration of men unloading crates of produce from the back of a truck in a city squa...
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International Light-Duty Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1946
Description: Advertising poster for International light-duty trucks. Features color illustrations of a dump truck, multi-stop delivery truck, tractor and semi-trailer, ...
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Santa and Children on a Coffee Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising greeting card which reads "Handsome Christmas Card in Every package of Lion Coffee, November 5 to Christmas Day." The card depicts Santa Claus ...
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Cigar Maker Ad

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Description: Trade card of H. Rolfs Cigar Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee advertising their Golden Horn cigars. The card depicts a cartoon-like drummer with the caption:...
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Arbuckle's Coffee Card

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Description: "It Almost Broke Her Up." One of a series of satiric trade cards issued by the Arbuckle's Aroisa Coffee Co. This incident is borrowed from "Texas Siftings,...
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President & Mrs. Cleveland Trade Card

Date: 1886
Description: The marriage of bachelor President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom, his 21-year old ward, in 1886 captured the nation's romantic imagination, a sentimen...
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Champion Reaper and Mower Advertisement

Date: 1879
Description: Advertisement for the Champion Self-Raking Reaper and Mower. This page was taken from an 1879 catalog for Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Co. of Springfield, O...
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View of Sparta, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: View on North Water Street, showing the building in which the Bank of Sparta was founded. A man is walking beside a oxen pulling a covered wagon.
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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card for William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a color illustration of men, women, and children in a f...
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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1885
Description: Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a farmer in patched and ragg...
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Deering Trade Card: "A Night of Labor"

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a man in his pajamas carryin...
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Deering Harvester Works

Date: 1888
Description: Engraving of the factory of William Deering and Company with inset illustrations of men operating a horse-drawn grain binder and mower.
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Champion Trade Card

Date: 1875
Description: Advertising card produced by Warder, Mitchell and Company, manufacturers of the Champion line of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of a...
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Deering Trade Card

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising card produced by William Deering (later known as William Deering and Company), manufacturer of agricultural machinery. Features at the top an i...
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McCormick Grain Binder Illustration

Date: 1887
Description: Color illustration of a "McCormick Steel Harvester and Binder" from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo.
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Illustration of Cyrus McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration of men harvesting grain with Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The illustration appeared in an advertising folder produced by the McCormick Ha...
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McCormick No. 3 Steel Mower Illustration

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration of a "McCormick Steel Mower No. 3" from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo.
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McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper

Date: 1849
Description: Handbill advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by the company then known as McCormick, Ogden & Co. Features a small drawing of the r...
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McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper

Date: 1850
Description: Broadside advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by what was then known as C.H. McCormick & Co. Features an illustration of the reape...
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McCormick Reaper Directions

Date: 1850
Description: Handbill containing directions for putting together and operating McCormick's reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Headline over illustration of t...

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