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- Trade Card for Peerless Traction Engine and Thresher, Geiser Manufacturing Company, July 28 to August 2, 1893 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1893
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Peerless Traction Engine and Thresher, Geiser Manufacturing Company, July 28 to August 2, 1893
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and saved the often illustrated little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Engineer and Fireman aboard Peerless Traction Engine, Pulling Grain Separator, 1896 - Some agricultural steam engines had to be hauled from farm to farm by teams of horses. Some - like the one pictured here - moved under their own power. At harvest time, this self-propelled traction engine towed the attached grain separator to a farm, where it would also power the separator to remove straw from grain and chaff.
- May 01, 1896
- Collections - Artifact
Engineer and Fireman aboard Peerless Traction Engine, Pulling Grain Separator, 1896
Some agricultural steam engines had to be hauled from farm to farm by teams of horses. Some - like the one pictured here - moved under their own power. At harvest time, this self-propelled traction engine towed the attached grain separator to a farm, where it would also power the separator to remove straw from grain and chaff.
- Peerless Portable Traction Engine, circa 1895 - Until reliable internal combustion engines became available, farmers depended on portable steam engines. They were efficient and affordable, and when mounted on wheels or skids, horses could pull them from farm to farm. The small engines powered agricultural machinery like grain threshers, sawmills, or corn shellers.
- circa 1895
- Collections - Artifact
Peerless Portable Traction Engine, circa 1895
Until reliable internal combustion engines became available, farmers depended on portable steam engines. They were efficient and affordable, and when mounted on wheels or skids, horses could pull them from farm to farm. The small engines powered agricultural machinery like grain threshers, sawmills, or corn shellers.
- Men Standing with Traction Engine and Grain Separator at Freight Station, 1896 - Some agricultural steam engines had to be hauled from farm to farm by teams of horses. Some - like the one pictured here - moved under their own power. At harvest time, this self-propelled traction engine towed the attached grain separator to a farm, where it would also power the separator to remove straw from grain and chaff.
- May 01, 1896
- Collections - Artifact
Men Standing with Traction Engine and Grain Separator at Freight Station, 1896
Some agricultural steam engines had to be hauled from farm to farm by teams of horses. Some - like the one pictured here - moved under their own power. At harvest time, this self-propelled traction engine towed the attached grain separator to a farm, where it would also power the separator to remove straw from grain and chaff.