Image of a six-fold advertisement with cover for Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company's Champion mowers and binders; cover image of a Christopher Columbus seated reclining at a table with map in hand under the skyline of Chicago, Illinois, and a globe; views of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company factory buildings on back cover; images of mowers and binders in use by farmers in fields and diagrams of machinery components interspersed with advertisement text; map of Chicago, Illinois, along Lake Michigan on verso showing proximity and various routes from the "World's Fair Grounds" to the "Office of the Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Co." along with numerical key to buildings, hotels, theaters, and clubs in the area. Cover illustrations are color-printed lithographs. Date supplied by cataloger based on company history and date of World's Fair in Chicago. "Sole Manufacturers of Champion Mowers and Binders Principal Offices: Springfield, Ohio. Chicago, Ill. Branch Offices and Agencies in every considerable Town in the United States."--text, top right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 engraving : color printed ; overall 29.85 x 50.17 cm (11 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
Advertising--Agriculture Advertising--Machinery industry Agricultural machinery industry--Pictorial works Agriculture--Pictorial works Columbus, Christopher--Pictorial works Farms--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Industrial buildings--Pictorial works Maps--Pictorial works World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company Intaglio prints--1875-1900. (gmgpc) 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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