| Contributor |
J. Ottmann Lithographic Company, printer. |
| Title |
A.W. Stevens & Sons, manufacturers & patentees, Auburn, New York. The new Stevens spring tooth harrow. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York: J. Ottmann Lith. Co |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1888 |
| Date |
[ca. 1888] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: chromolithograph; sheet 15 x 33 cm.(5.75 x 13 in.), folded to 15 x 9 cm.(5.75 x 3.25) |
| Description |
Fold-out flier containing two illustrations, including a cover image. Cover image shows two fashionably dressed girls seated
in a goat carriage. One girl holds a muff. Other image depicts captioned scenes comparing and contrasting farmers using and
not using a "Stevens Arch-Frame Harrow." Scenes separated by a pictorial detail of shrubbery and stones. In the left, a strident
farmer follows behind his buoyant horse team pulling a Stevens Harrow over an area of stones "and fears no snag." A dog romps
besides the horses. In the right, a hunched "old-fashioned" farmer realigns his "straight frame harrow" entwined with old
growth behind his haggard horse team. A dog crouches away from the scene where the "Farmers' Dismal Song is 'That's the Harrow
my Back to Break.'" The Stevens firm, established in 1842 by A.W. Stevens, was renamed A.W. Stevens & Son in 1870. The firm
operated under that name until 1898.
|
| Notes |
For Sale By, [signed in pencil] Mory. |
|
Several lines of advertising text printed on verso. Text promotes and explicates the success, design, patents, and ordering
of the "All Steel, Arched Frame" Stevens Spring Tooth Harrow.
|
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
|
Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler. |
| Subject |
A.W. Stevens & Son. |
|
Agricultural machinery industry -- New York -- Auburn. |
|
Harrows. |
|
Farmers. |
|
Farming. |
| Genre |
Fliers (Printed matter) -- 1880-1890. |
|
Advertisements -- 1880-1890. |
|
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.175] |
| Accession number |
P.2011.10.175 |
