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The Champion light binder

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Description: Image of a farmer working with a Champion light binder machine in a field with a team of horses in an advertisement for Warder, Bushnell & Glessner manufacturers of Springfield, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois; hilly landscape in background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1879
Call number: priJLC_AGR_001768
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.)

No. 8 steel Excelsior binder

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Image of a fold-out advertisement for Excelsior harvesting machines manufactured by Hoover & Gamble of Miamisburg, Ohio; images of farmers with harvesting machinery pulled by horses around a large globe on recto; farmer with machine pulled by horses, machine parts, and Hoover & Gamble industrial buildings on verso.

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Battle of Champion-Hills

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Image of Union General John A. Logan's rear attack on the Confederate army in a wooded area as part of the Battle of Champion Hill east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the American Civil War; soldiers on horseback with American flags lead the battle; Confederate cannons on hill attack Union lines.

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Chicago : Compliments of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Co

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Image of a six-fold advertisement with cover for Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company's Champion mowers and binders; cover image of a Christopher Columbus seated reclining at a table with map in hand under the skyline of Chicago, Illinois, and a globe; views of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company factory buildings on back cover; images of mowers and binders in use by farmers in fields and diagrams of machinery components interspersed with advertisement text; map of Chicago, Illinois, along Lake Michigan on verso showing proximity and various routes from the "World's Fair Grounds" to the "Office of the Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Co." along with numerical key to buildings, hotels, theaters, and clubs in the area.

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The McCormick

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Image of a farmer operating agricultural machinery pulled by a team of horses across the surface of a large world globe in an advertisement for the McCormick division of the International Harvester Company of America.

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The McCormick

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Champion barbed wire manft'd by the Crandal Mfg' Co

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Image of livestock and other farm animals, including a dog, sheep, horse, chickens, a cow, and pigs, discussing the successful use of Champion Barbed Wire in terms of visibility and effectiveness in a five-fold advertisement for the Crandal Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois; dialogue balloon captions above each animal; advertisement text on verso.

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