Visual Materials

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

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880-1903
Call number: priJLC_AGR_003407
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

Empire Drilling Co. Shortsville, N.Y

Visual Materials

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.

priJLC_AGR_001789

J.H. Thomas & Sons, Springfield, O. : Thomas rakes & engines, mudgett hay tedders

Visual Materials

Image of a five-fold advertisement for rakes, engines, and other farming machinery from J.H. Thomas & Sons of Springfield, Ohio; images of the products in use by a female farmer in a field, different varieties of rakes, and a view of the company's factory building are interspersed with advertisement text on recto and verso.

priJLC_AGR_003405

The self adjusting Nashawannuck M'f'g. Co

Visual Materials

Image of a farmer with two horses pulling a plow while a mounted horseman wearing a drum indicates an event of some urgency, three men carrying rifles run towards the farmer and horsemen in response to the alert; image intended to advertise Nashawannuck Manufacturing Co.'s self-adjusting braces (suspenders).

priJLC_FASH_001610

Lake Superior Transit Co

Visual Materials

Image of a steamboat with the name "Japan" lettered on the side approaching the Pictured Rocks on Lake Superior in Michigan; a large rock cave with a small rowboat visible at left.

priJLC_MAR_001420

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

Visual Materials

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.

priJLC_FASH_001668

Old Challenge Whiskey

Visual Materials

Image of a whiskey barrel label depicting a crowing rooster perched on a barrel in a circular frame; ship with sails, farm, and a farmer with horses working the fields visible in background; interlocking monogram in circular frame on barrel with "M," "R," and "Co."

priJLC_BEV_001858

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

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