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Diploma awarded by the New-York State Agricultural Society

Description: Image of a farm with livestock, farmhouse, barn, and farm workers on a diploma issued by the New York State Agricultural Society; sheaves of wheat, livestock, and farm scenes including a man with plow and horses, a man harvesting grain, workers pulling a wagon full of hay, and a woman watering flowers form a border.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1855
Call number: priJLC_AGR_001796
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Speed the plough. Norfolk Agricultural Society

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Image of agriculture and livestock-related scenes on a certificate from the Norfolk Agricultural Society of Massachusetts; farmer milking a cow, man with horses, farm workers plowing fields near cattle and sheep, birdhouses and beehives in foliage, and grain sheaves make a decorative border for certificate text; embossed "Norfolk Agricultural Society 1849" seal at bottom left.

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St. Lawrence County. Agricultural Society

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Image of a woman with a bouquet of flowers and a man holding a scythe flanking a statue of a woman in flowing garments representing bounty and harvest on a certificate issued by the St. Lawrence County Agricultural Society of New York; farm fields, workers, farming implements, livestock, barn, farmhouse, grain, and produce surrounding farmers and in background.

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Annual Fair of the Moravia Agricultural Society. Diploma

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Image of fields, grain, farm implements, and livestock at center of a certificate issued by the Moravia Agricultural Society of New York; four images of men and women with grain or farm implements at left and right, including a Native American Indian; seal with women in flowing garments on either side of an eagle on a shield with the motto "Excelsior" underneath at bottom center.

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Diploma awarded by the Vermont State Agricultural Society to

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Image of a diploma certificate from the Vermont State Agricultural Society illustrated with several vignettes featuring horses, dogs, and livestock, farming and industrial workers and tools, and women representing harvest bounty.

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Assignee's sale of valuable real estate and pers'l property!

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Image of a broadside advertising the auction of a farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, including land, buildings, livestock, agricultural machinery and implements, grain, and produce; images of barn and farmhouse, a cow, horse being led by a man, and pigs, surrounded by advertisement text.

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Diploma awarded by the Agricultural Society of Queens County, New York

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Image of a diploma certificate from the Agricultural Society of Queens County, New York, featuring five agriculture and livestock related vignettes; men with horses, farmers pitching hay or plowing assisted by oxen, and a woman on a riverbank tending her cows and goat form a decorative border with scrolling vines, arches, and eagles.

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Diploma awarded by the New-York State Agricultural Society

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