Image of trains traveling past farms and livestock fields with barbed wire fencing in an advertisement for Glidden Steel Barb Wire manufactured by I.L. Ellwood & Company of De Kalb, Illinois; fencing advertised to be impervious to floods and sparks with captions including "After the Flood," and "Sparks" at left and right; industrial building at top center; barbed wire border. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Shober & Carqueville operated under that name from 1877-1895. "Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co. Chicago."--text, bottom right margin. "Safety to Passengers and Property. Lasts twice as long as any other kind of Fence. Sparks do not set it on Fire. Floods do not sweep it away. Its Merits Commend it as the Best Fence in the World. The Pioneer Barb Fencing. Over 150 Railway Companies use the Glidden Steel Barb Wire. More in use than of all other Kinds combined. All new steel. Lighter per Rod than any other made from same size wires. More Barbs per Rod & Better Protection. The Best is cheapest and the Glidden is guaranteed without an Equal Standard of the World."--text, center of image. "For Sale By"--text, bottom left margin. Registration marks visible in margins.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.34 x 65.72 cm (21 x 25 7/8 in.)
Agriculture--Pictorial works Farms--Pictorial works Locomotives--Pictorial works I.L. Ellwood & Co Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Proofs. (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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