Image of an advertisement for the Advance Thresher Company of Battle Creek, Michigan; portraits of United States presidents, labeled with names and years in office from George Washington in 1789 to Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 frame a pair of scenes contrasting African American slaves threshing on a plantation in Virginia in 1788 with machine threshing a harvest in the early 1900s; herald-bearer with banner for Advance at top center. Date supplied by cataloger based on item text. "Gies & Co., Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Threshing on the Estate of George Washington in Virginia, 1788."--text, caption, center left of image. "Threshing in the Great Wheat Fields of the West at the present time."--text, caption, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 91.76 x 63.82 cm (36 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
Advertising--Agriculture Advertising--Machinery industry African Americans--Pictorial works Agricultural machinery--Pictorial works Agriculture--Pictorial works Farms--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Presidents--United States--Pictorial works Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Pictorial works Slaves--Pictorial works Washington, George, 1732-1799--Pictorial works Advance Thresher Co Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Agriculture Large Size Implements & Supplies The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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