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Photograph

Graphic Artist in Office with Drawings

Date: 1920
Description: International Harvester advertising artist sitting at his desk in a studio office with a wistful look on his face. Graphics from Deering brand advertisemen...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1875
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1875
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower...
Photograph

Art Director G.V. Johnson

Date: 12 30 1935
Description: Art Director G.V. Johnson, of International Harvester's Advertising Department in Chicago, sitting at his desk.
Print

McCormick's Prize Harvesters

Date: 1868
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for C.H. McCormick and Brothers, featuring an engraved illustration of man operating a horse-drawn mower. Includes the text...
Print

You Blow the Powder

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Description: Advertising for Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder, showing a drawing of a woman administering a treatment to herself by blowing the powder up her own nose thro...
Photograph

Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: John Worden and Ralph Denu recently formed an art studio bearing both of their names. Advertising agencies often use such an art studio.
Drawing

Andrae Cycles Advertisement

Date: 09 1895
Description: Full page, engraved advertisement for Andrae Cycles. Depicts men and women bicycling on a path in a bucolic setting, in addition to text promoting bicycles...
Photograph

Stage Curtain

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Description: A stage curtain with advertising for local businesses, and a landscape scene in the middle depicting a sailboat near a shoreline with an island in the dist...
Book or Pamphlet

International Auto Wagon Brochure — Front and Back Cover

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Description: Fold-out brochure, with a front and back cover shaped and printed as a barn. A man is shown driving an International Auto Wagon as seen through the open ba...
Drawing

Commercial Art for Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Pen and ink drawing of the backside of a small, naked boy holding an ice cream cone while wearing Cecil's Sandals with the caption: "Beat the Heat in Cecil...
Drawing

Commercial Art for Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Pen and ink drawing of a man with a large nose looking down at his feet. He is wearing sandals. Caption reads: "He Nose Comfort and Health from Head to Toe...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of an overhead view of a man operating a Number 5 Ram Turret machine with a control panel. Metal shavings are scattered on the machi...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of two female factory workers speaking to each other. The woman on the left is in three-quarter view. She has her arm raised with index fi...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a machine operator working on a six-arm turret. He is wearing a billed cap and safety goggles.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of an engineer wearing work clothes and introducing a Gisholt Machine Company turret lathe.
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Professional illustration art of a hydraulic automatic lathe. The close-up view shows a machining tool with angled bits, presumably at Gisholt Machine Comp...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Professional illustration art of the No. 12 Automatic Production Lathe by Gisholt Machine Company with a close=up of the product plate and trademark. The b...
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustrative art of machine operator working with a turret.

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