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Pacific Guano Co

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Description: Image of a five-fold advertisement for fertilizer manufactured by Pacific Guano Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and sold by H. A. Blake of Sutton, Vermont; advertising text and testimonials throughout; images of a fish, a mammoth skeleton, and an aquatic bird eating a fish while standing atop a bag of "Soluble Pacific Guano" on cover panels.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1882
Call number: priJLC_AGR_003712
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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Ceres, trademark fertilizers

Visual Materials

Image of a bi-fold leaflet advertising fertilizers sold by Ceres Manufacturing Company of Baltimore, Maryland; text offers testimonials, solicits for agents, and describes products, including special wheat manure, raw bone fertilizer, and natural bird guano.

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Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co. Philadelphia

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Image of an elevated view of a factory building complex for Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; buildings visible along a waterfront with steam and sailing ships docking at the ports and locomotives transporting goods.

priJLC_AGR_000646

Snow bird and the water tiger and other American Indian tales

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Image of an advertisement for Snow Bird and the Water Tiger and Other American Indian Tales by Margaret Compton; two panels depict outsized Native American Indians interacting with a wild landscape; a large hand holds a fish above a forest with a deer and a bear near a stream at left; a large face with windswept hair peers over a rocky cliff face with a warrior at the mouth of a cave with skeleton apparitions inside at right.

priJLC_ART_003095

Take the favorite Rock Island route Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y. : For all points in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado

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Image of a poster with promotional text and timetable for the Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad with a center wood engraved image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad lines and a wood engraved vignette in the lower part of the poster of a cross section of the "Palace Dining Car" showing the interior of the car with passengers eating and being served by African-American waiters.

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D. M. Ferry & Co's standard seeds for sale here

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Image of a young child sitting on the floor and eating a cantaloupe melon off a plate with a spoon in an advertisement for seeds sold by D. M. Ferry & Company of Detroit, Michigan.

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Take the favorite Rock Island route Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. : For Peoria, Rock Island, Davenport, Iowa City, Des Moines

Visual Materials

Image of a poster with promotional text and timetable for the Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad with a center wood-engraved image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad lines and a wood-engraved vignette in the lower part of the poster of a cross section of the "Palace Dining Car" showing the interior of the car with passengers eating and being served by African-American waiters.

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Pacific Guano Co

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