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Columbia Chilled Plow Advertising Card
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Reverse side of chromolithograph card listing the advantages of the Columbia Chilled Plow. Includes black text over an illustration in red ink of a plow. Manufactured by Columbia Plow Works, Copake Iron Works, N.Y.
1881
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WHi 107761
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