Farm equipment
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Advertising cards collection
Collection — Folder S3144
Identifier: S3144
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertising cards, tickets, brochures and other ephemeral items from merchants and event planners in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan and Missouri, ranging from 1887 to 1976 regarding advertising for products and services as well as special events.
Dates:
1887-1976, undated
Advertising collection
Collection — Folder S3085
Identifier: S3085
Scope and Contents
The dated materials found in Collection S3085 extend from 1878 to 1897. Half of the items in this collection relate to farm equipment, including a disk cultivator and harrow, wheel cultivator, sulky plow, pole rake, cultivator, and clover huller. Other items in the collection include a “Legislative Directory” for the 1897 Indiana State Legislature, a post card, and a business card for a photographic studio.Item listing:12 Aug. 1878 - Illustration (7” x 10 ½”) of disk...
Dates:
1878-1897
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Advertising collection
Birdsell Manufacturing Company collection
Collection — Folder S120
Identifier: S0120
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a color illustrated greeting card and small leather change purse from Birdsell Manufacturing ranging from circa 1888-1965.
Dates:
circa 1888-1965
Casler and Peterson collection
Collection — Folder S237
Identifier: S0237
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two invoices and a contract book from Casler and Peterson in New York ranging from 1914/0/01 to 1914/06/03 regarding purchases.
Dates:
1914
Dorsey and Layman advertisement
Collection — Folder S3443
Identifier: S3443
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one advertisement for farm equipment created by Dorsey and Layman in Indianapolis, dated April 16, 1867. The specific pieces of equipment detailed are the "common sense" horse hay elevator, the buckeye mower and reaper, and Pitts' improved thresher.
Dates:
1867/04/16
Frank S. Masters papers
Collection
Identifier: L102
Scope and Contents
This collection includes papers and ledgers from Frank S. Master's various businesses in Brookville, Indiana ranging from 1898 to 1952 regarding hardware and farm implement businesses, insurance and farm accounts and bank examinations.
Dates:
circa 1900-1952
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Frank S. Masters papers
J. D. Adams and Company records
Collection
Identifier: L390
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of three parts. One part is that of annual, financial and various other business reports. This portion holds annual reports from 1929 until 1957, as well as other business records. The second portion of the collection are photocopies of photographs and pictures illustrating the company, its employees and machines from around 1932 until 1974. The last part of the collection consists of the catalogs that the company used to aid their salespeople and guide buyers...
Dates:
1929-1977
James D. Davidson collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0334
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostats and typed copies of letters sent to James D. Davidson by his brothers, Alexander Davidson and Charles Baker (C.B.), his nephew Preston Davidson, and other Indiana residents regarding family news, economic conditions, elections, secession, slavery, the Civil War, money issues, and Noah Noble's estate. Also included are letters sent to other Davidson family members, three letters sent to C.H. and W.S. McCormick from an A.D. Hagen (?) regarding McCormick reaper...
Dates:
1837-1866
Mitchell family collection
Collection — Folder S2506
Identifier: S2506
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an assortment of printed flyers, advertisements, trade cards, and copies of genealogical material ranging from 1899 to 1922 regarding farming, agriculture, and family life. The family history material consist of a biography of Chalkley Emerson Hunt (1842-1918) and autobiographical reminscences of an unnamed person. Among the printed items are publications from Hoosier Mineral Feed, Indiana Mutual Cylone Insurance Co., E. Rauh and Sons Animal Feed Co., and Swine Breeders...
Dates:
1899-1922
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mitchell family collection
Pepper family photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP138
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs taken by Kate Reifel Pepper and others from Franklin County, Indiana in ranging from circa 1914 to circa 1915 regarding the Pepper and Reifel families, bridge building, farming, and Peppertown, Indiana.
Dates:
circa 1914-circa 1915
