Details
Title [U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Co. trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 2 prints : chromolithographs ; 8.5 x 14.5 cm. (3.5 x 5.75 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards depicting the Halladay Standard pumping and geared windmill and the Gem steel wind engine windmill. Includes vignettes of farm life, showing men loading hay onto a horse-drawn cart and a man and his dog herding cattle. The United States Wind Engine and Pump Co. was founded in Batavia, Illinois ca. 1863.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Advertising text printed on versos promotes the U.S. Wind Engine and Pump Co.'s "Halladay Standard Wind Mill" and "Gem Steel Wind Engine".
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Helen Beitler.
Digitized.
Subject U.S. Wind Engine & Pump Co.
Windmills.
Farming.
Livestock.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - United States [P.9993.8 & 9]
Accession number P.9993.8
P.9993.9