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Rochester seed store catalogue---1841

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Description: Image of a catalog leaflet for Rochester Seed Store by Bateham & Crosman of Rochester, New York; central image of the Arcade Building on Buffalo Street in Rochester; images of plants and crops interspersed with lists of available garden, grain, grass, and flower seeds.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1841
Call number: priJLC_HORT_003538
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Crosman Bros. “Sowing the seed.” Seeds new crop Rochester, N.Y

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Image of an African American couple walking through their yard together in an advertisement for Crosman Brothers of Rochester, New York; man holds a rake over one shoulder, has his arm around the woman's shoulders, and they gaze at each other happily; seeds and seed packets fall from the basket over the woman's arm and are eaten by the chickens following her; house and sunflowers past a wooden fence in background.

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Crosman Bros. seeds Rochester, N.Y

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Image of a fashionably dressed woman examining a poster advertisement for Crosman Bros. Seed House of Rochester, New York, posted outdoors on stone wall; the woman peers through pince-nez spectacles and carries a puppy and a parasol umbrella in one arm against her hip; fashion details include a long plaid dress with ruffles and lace, ruffled button gloves, a straw hat with feather embellishment.

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Crosman Bro’s. Rochester N.Y. Choice flower seeds

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Image of a man in work clothes and a straw hat wheeling a little girl in a wheelbarrow past a low stone wall through a flower garden in an advertisement for Crosman Brothers of Rochester, New York; girl holds a straw hat full of flowers in her lap; stately home with fountain, statute and trees in background.

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Dunlap’s new flower seeds

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Image of a garden full of foliage and flowers, including zinnias, pansies, moon flowers, and nasturtiums, with individual flower varieties illustrated and captioned on seed packets above in an advertisement for Dunlap's flower seeds.

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"Make no mistake" buy Rice's popular flower seeds

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Image of a woman in a long dress holding a flower seed packet leaning over a basket spilling over with blooming pansies in an advertisement for Rice's seeds.

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D. M. Ferry & Co's flower seeds

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Image of a large web made of blue ribbon covered with various colors and varieties of poppies in an advertisement for D.M. Ferry & Company's flower seeds; two seed packets also attached to the ribbon web.

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Rochester seed store catalogue---1841

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