Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a four-fold advertisement for Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Company of Hoosick Falls, New York; a boy and a girl operate hay rakes pulled by horses in a farm field with farmhouse, barn, and mountains in background; 8 panels with images of rakes interspersed with descriptive text on verso.
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Visual Materials
Image of trains traveling past farms and livestock fields with barbed wire fencing in an advertisement for Glidden Steel Barb Wire manufactured by I.L. Ellwood & Company of De Kalb, Illinois; fencing advertised to be impervious to floods and sparks with captions including "After the Flood," and "Sparks" at left and right; industrial building at top center; barbed wire border.
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Visual Materials
Image of a length of barbed wire in a text advertisement for The Buck-Thorn barbed fencing; advertising text, testimonials, and information on recto and verso.
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Manuscripts
A view of a farmhouse with a grassy lawn, a bush-lined front walkway, and a large tree, all enclosed in a low wire fence.
mssLattaS, Box 116, Folder 2, Item 1
Visual Materials
Photo of soldiers setting up a barbed wire fence.
photCL 39 (463)
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Visual Materials
This series contains approximately 2,190 small-size printed items that pertain to or portray imagery of agriculture in the United States from approximately 1818 to 1915. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records related to agricultural industries. The agriculture-affiliated entities represented in this series include fertilizer companies, implement and machinery vendors and manufacturers, and fencing suppliers. Products advertised include harvesters, plows, reapers, rakes, hoes, tedders, pumps, windmills, fertilizer, and barb wire fencing for livestock. Item types include trade cards, leaflets, handbills, calendars, price lists, small catalogs, and printed billheads and letterheads with and without manuscript text.
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