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- Trade Card for the Orange County Farmer Newspaper, 1881-1895 - 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.
- 1881-1895
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Trade Card for the Orange County Farmer Newspaper, 1881-1895
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.
- Farm Scene, Wagon and Train, Men Haying, 1890-1915 - In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the <em>New York Herald</em>. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- 1890-1915
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Farm Scene, Wagon and Train, Men Haying, 1890-1915
In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the New York Herald. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- Cutting Hemp near Lexington on One of the Largest Fields in Kentucky - This stereograph shows four mules, two men, and one self-rake reaper harvesting industrial hemp. The reaper, perhaps a McCormick-Deering model, was reinforced to cut the woody stalks and rake them onto the ground. The text incorrectly links hemp with other strains of Cannabis sativa and other species (Cannabis indica) from which medicinal or recreational products, including hashish, derive.
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Cutting Hemp near Lexington on One of the Largest Fields in Kentucky
This stereograph shows four mules, two men, and one self-rake reaper harvesting industrial hemp. The reaper, perhaps a McCormick-Deering model, was reinforced to cut the woody stalks and rake them onto the ground. The text incorrectly links hemp with other strains of Cannabis sativa and other species (Cannabis indica) from which medicinal or recreational products, including hashish, derive.
- Instructions for Operating Maytag Multi-Motor Engine, The Maytag Company, circa 1931 -
- circa 1931
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Instructions for Operating Maytag Multi-Motor Engine, The Maytag Company, circa 1931
- Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963 - More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- August 28, 1963
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Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963
More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- "Farmers Market, Los Angeles," circa 1945 -
- circa 1945
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"Farmers Market, Los Angeles," circa 1945
- Strip Quilt by Susana Allen Hunter, 1945-1948 -
- 1945-1948
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Strip Quilt by Susana Allen Hunter, 1945-1948
- Seed Corn Week!, 1912 - The Wabash Railway, with origins dating back to 1838, was a strong Midwestern carrier until Amtrak took over the national passenger railroad system in 1971. Like other railroads, Wabash advertised its trains to people relocating to the American West. Wabash promoted the fertile farmland along its routes, and it offered special fares and services for farmers.
- May 01, 1912
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Seed Corn Week!, 1912
The Wabash Railway, with origins dating back to 1838, was a strong Midwestern carrier until Amtrak took over the national passenger railroad system in 1971. Like other railroads, Wabash advertised its trains to people relocating to the American West. Wabash promoted the fertile farmland along its routes, and it offered special fares and services for farmers.
- Open the Flood Gates, Flooding a Rice Field at High Tide, South Carolina, U.S.A. - Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. After the war, rice cultivation expanded along the Gulf Coast. This stereograph shows a man tending the crop while the back educates viewers about U.S. rice cultivation during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
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Open the Flood Gates, Flooding a Rice Field at High Tide, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. After the war, rice cultivation expanded along the Gulf Coast. This stereograph shows a man tending the crop while the back educates viewers about U.S. rice cultivation during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
- Man Driving a Ford Ferguson Tractor Pulling a Trailer of Manure to Spread over a Field, January 1940 -
- January 17, 1940
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Man Driving a Ford Ferguson Tractor Pulling a Trailer of Manure to Spread over a Field, January 1940