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Newport's experimental farm...we stand on the merits of our goods

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Description: Image of an advertisement booklet for Newport Fertilizer Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; four panels show an elderly farmer fertilizing a cabbage plant that grows quickly enough to allow him to climb it and escape a bull lettered with the words "The Trust" rampaging through the field; interior images show factory views, ships in the company's fleet, and train shipment of their fertilizer interspersed with advertising text.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1903-1904
Call number: priJLC_AGR_003620

Dunlap's seeds : Nashua, N.H. : Good harvest from good seed

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Image of a child holding a large head of lettuce or cabbage that covers their entire torso in an advertisement for Dunlap's seeds; a variety of fruits and vegetables, including corn, turnips, onions, and melons, are stacked in a pile next to the child; chair with a plate of tomatoes in background at right.

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Encampment of U. St. troops at Newport News, Va. 1861 & 1862

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Image of an aerial view of a military camp along the shore in Newport News, Virginia; rows of buildings with several American flags flying on flagpoles spread out over the shore; ships and rowboats sail to and from docks offshore, including a steamship lettered "Express" at pier at right.

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Dunlap’s Seeds : Good harvest from good seed

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Image of a woman in a long dress sitting on the ground shelling peas in an advertisement for Dunlap's seeds; she sits next to a stone wall surrounded by a variety of fruits and vegetables, including lettuce, beans, celery, melons, radishes, onions, and corn; on the ground next to her is a basket lettered with "A. H. D. & S. Nashua N.H." full of tomatoes and turnips.

priJLC_HORT_002430

Standard Fertilizers

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Image of bags of fertilizer and barrels of crops "Grown With Standard Fertilizers" and "Grown Without" on a balance scale showing Standard Fertilizer to be the superior choice in an advertisement for Standard Fertilizer Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

priJLC_AGR_001790

For 1891 Rice's novelties in vegetables. Marblehead mammoth cabbage

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Image of a man wheeling a giant 90 lb. cabbage in a wheelbarrow on dirt road on the way to a county fair in an advertisement for Rice's Seeds of Cambridge, New York.

priJLC_HORT_002420

Famous Rochester seeds the best in the world

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Image of various varieties of vegetables and fruit with caption labels, including cabbage, celery, squash, tomato, and corn; inset images of the "Hiram Sibley & Co. Seedsmen" buildings in Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois, at top left and right.

priJLC_HORT_002468

Newport's experimental farm...we stand on the merits of our goods

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