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Empire Drilling Co. Shortsville, N.Y

Description: Image of a farmer working his field with agricultural machinery in an advertisement for Empire Drill Company of Shortsville, New York; his wife and children watch him work with a picnic in the foreground; cattle drink and graze at the edge of a stream near the field.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1875-1890
Call number: priJLC_AGR_001789
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

The old and the new. : Superior Drill Co. Springfield, Ohio

Visual Materials

Image of a three-fold advertisement for the Superior Drill Company of Springfield, Ohio; images of Superior Drill Co. machines in use in fields on farms contrasted with a farmer sowing seed by hand with a sack slung over his shoulders; advertising text and images of the Superior Drill Co. factory building and farm implements on verso.

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Button fire engine works : Holroyd & Co. Proprietors Waterford, Saratoga Co., N.Y

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Image of a central image of a steam fire engine with two firefighters being drawn by two horses through a city street with a burning building in the background and a fire hydrant in the foreground; with seven vignettes consisting of five firefighting vehicles, a bundle of firefighting accessories including a ladder, hook, pick, lantern, speaking trumpet, and fireman's hat labeled "8", and an elevated view of the exterior of the Button Fire Engine Co. factory buildings in Waterford, New York, with someone aiming a stream of water from a hose over the roof of a building.

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"Snag-proof" trademark : Lambertville rubber co. Lambertville, N.J

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Image of three rubber shoes and boots outdoors near a body of water surrounded by caricature little people or brownies of various professions and ethnicities, including an African tribesman, a Frenchman with a bomb, a chef, a musketeer, a fireman, an admiral, an American Indian, a robber with a drill, a lumberjack, a farmer with a pitchfork, a pair of sailors tugging a rope, a soldier with dynamite, and many more attempting to destroy or snag the rubber footwear with no success.

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Camp Huntington 1862. Rome, Oneida County, N.Y

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Image of an elevated view of military Camp Huntington in Oneida County, New York, during the American Civil War; spectators watch from behind fences as soldiers drill in campground; various horse-drawn vehicles on road in foreground.

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Farmer's brace : Nashawannuck M'f'g. Co

Visual Materials

Image of a farmer with a large whip directing two horses pulling a loaded wagon advertising farmer's braces (suspenders); barn and two field workers harvesting crops visible in background.

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Farmer's brace : Nashawannuck M'f'g. Co

Visual Materials

Image of a farmer with a large whip directing two horses pulling a loaded wagon advertising farmer's braces (suspenders); barn and two field workers harvesting crops visible in background.

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Empire Drilling Co. Shortsville, N.Y

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The old and the new. : Superior Drill Co. Springfield, Ohio

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