Image of a group of farmers working a threshing machine in a field in an advertisement for A.W. Gray's Sons of Middletown Springs, Vermont; two horses on a treadmill supply power for the machine while the three men load grain and straw on and off the thresher; partially harvested fields and landscape in background. Dates supplied by cataloger based on printer and company history; Gies began printing in 1875 and A.W. Gray's Sons went out of business in 1917. "Gies & Co. Lith. Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom left margin. "Established in 1840. A.W. Gray's Sons, Patentees and sole Manufacturers. Middletown Springs, Vt."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 48.26 x 61.28 cm (19 x 24 1/8 in.)
Advertising--Agriculture Advertising--Machinery industry Agricultural machinery--Pictorial works Farms--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Men--Pictorial works A.W. Gray's Sons 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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