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Deering Harvester Company Chicago U.S.A

Description: Image of a promotional calendar for 1902 advertising for Deering Harvester Company of Chicago, Illinois; a girl wearing a dress with large bow collar, lace hat with veil, and a parasol is flanked by vignettes featuring agricultural machinery, farmers, and horses working in farm fields.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1901
Call number: priJLC_AGR_001787
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Associated people: Ackerman, James, (1815 or 1816-1864.); Baker, Geo. H. (1827-1906.); Crow, Franklin. (1809 or 1810-1878.); Forbes, E. (1830-1927.)

Wm. Deering & Co. : Chicago, U.S.A. harvesting machinery

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Image of a fold-out advertisement for William Deering & Company of Chicago, Illinois, manufacturer of binders, mowers, and reapers; a series of vignettes illustrate children, Deering machinery, and farm scenes with farmer, horses, and harvests on recto and verso.

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Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery Chicago Ill. U.S.A

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Image of a three-fold leaflet advertising for William Deering & Company binders, mowers, and reapers; four panels feature small children with lambs, a calf, a dog, and posed with flowers and grain on recto; farm scenes with farmer, horses, and machinery on verso.

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Deering twine binding harvesters at work on Cooper Bro's farm 27.000 acres. Cooperstown, D. T

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Image of a large group of farmers with horses and agricultural machinery working on the Cooper brothers' farm in Cooperstown, North Dakota, in an advertisement for Deering harvester machines; deer head with antlers in a large "G" with landscape backdrop at top center; sheaves of grain in circular frames in all four corners; decorative grain border.

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The price tells, and everybody tells the price the [world] over. James Focht, is the place to buy

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Image of a woman carrying a parasol/umbrella and wearing a floral hat and an elaborate dress with jacket bodice, overskirt with lace and bow detail, and long gathered skirt with bustle, ruffled hem and floral detailing; smaller image above of Atlas carrying the globe on his shoulders.

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The Tarrytown widow

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Image of a young woman in a yellow Gibson Girl dress and floral hat standing with a parasol; the poster advertises the farcical comedy "The Tarrytown Widow" written by Charles T. Dazey and under the direction of D. W. Truss.

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The Deering mowers

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Image of a single-fold leaflet advertising mowers manufactured by William Deering & Company of Chicago, Illinois; text describing rationale for 2 1/4 inch mower knife sections is interspersed with diagrams of the machinery.

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Deering Harvester Company Chicago U.S.A

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