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Chicago : Compliments of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Co

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1893
Call number: priJLC_AGR_003403
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Wm. Deering & Co. : Chicago, U.S.A. harvesting machinery

Visual Materials

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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Binner Engraving Co. Fisher Building Chicago

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Image of an advertisement for Binner Printing Company of Chicago, Illinois; a small child wearing only a headband rides on the back of a large swimming fish, holding a palm frond aloft on one hand and an artist's palette and brushes in the other; image of the Fisher Building on a busy commercial street corner in Chicago inset at top right.

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The Champion light binder

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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.

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Walter A. Wood harvest machines

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Image of a three-fold advertisement for Walter A. Wood agricultural machines, including binders, rakes, mowers, and reapers; four panels feature men and women working fields with horse teams and farming machinery with farmhouses in the background; Walter A. Wood "Carry the News" winged messenger logo and advertising text on verso.

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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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Chicago : Compliments of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Co

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