Trade catalogs from Deere & Co.

Date Range: 1800s-1900s

Company Name: Deere & Co.Related Companies: John Deere Tractor Co., Waterloo, IA ; John Deere Harvester Works of Deere & Co., East Moline, IL ; Deere, Mansur & Co. ; Deere & Mansur Co. ; Deere Power Systems (Waterloo, IA) ; John Deere

Place: Moline, Illinois, United States

Topic (Romaine Term): Agricultural tools and machineryAutomobiles and automotive equipment (including trucks and buses)Construction and earth-moving machineryEngines and motors: steam; oil; gas; etc.Farm equipment and supplies (including dairy and poultry equipment)Foods and beverage products and processing equipment (including brewing; distilleries; beer; wine; etc.)Garden and lawn equipment and suppliesLumber; logging; timber and forestryToys and gamesTopic: Agricultural implementsAgricultural machineryAutomobilesBeverage industryConstruction equipmentDairyingDistilleriesEarthmoving machineryEnginesFarm equipmentFood industry and tradeForests and forestryGamesGarden ornaments and furnitureGarden toolsLumberMotor vehiclesMotorsTimberToy makingToys

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Record Id: SILNMAHTL_13401

Type Of Material: Trade catalogsTrade literature

Notes Content: Agricultural equipment: Combines: rice, corn, grain, bean, self-propelled, pull-type, hillside; pickers: corn, cotton; manure loaders and spreaders; hay baler, cuber; hi-dump wagon; crawler; tractors: grove and orchard, 4 wheel drive, lawn and garden; lawn mowers ; grain carts; forage equipment; hay tedder; potato and beet digger; windrower; grain elevators; tiller; "Gator" utility vehicles. Engines: gasoline, kerosene. Farm toys. Hand and horse drawn plows, harrows, cultivators. Owners' manuals, sales manuals, German-language materials. "The Furrow" various issues, 1922-1976; "Better Farming" 1941, 1942 issues; "Modern Farming" 1965 issue; "JD Observer" Summer 1988 issue. Construction equipment: skidders; logging equipment; tractors: wheel, turf, crawler; forklifts; graders; pipeliners; loaders; backhoes; scrapers; sidebooms; crawlers; rippers; log arch; landscape seeder; landscape rake; bulldozer; scrapers; drott buckets; crawlers. Specification sheets, owners' manuals. Chassis. Rotary engines. Corporate histories; 1987 annual report. "John Deere serial number search list: Compiled as a collector service by the Criswell's John Deere Tractor Museum, Lamar, S.C."Includes: Trade catalog, price lists, manual and historiesBlack and white imagesColor imagesPhysical Description: 317 pieces; 10 boxes

Record Id: SILNMAHTL_13401

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