Image of a farmer working his field with agricultural machinery in an advertisement for Empire Drill Company of Shortsville, New York; his wife and children watch him work with a picnic in the foreground; cattle drink and graze at the edge of a stream near the field. Date approximated by cataloger based on printer history and style of dress in image. "Gies & Co. Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 55.56 x 71.44 cm (21 7/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
Advertising--Agriculture Advertising--Machinery industry Agricultural machinery--Pictorial works Agriculture--Pictorial works Children--Pictorial works Families--Pictorial works Farms--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Livestock--Pictorial works Picnics--Pictorial works Empire Drill Co Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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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