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Agricultural equipment catalogs collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 495 large
Scope and Contents
The Agricultural Equipment Catalogs collection consists of approximately 3,500 agricultural machinery sales catalogs, promotional brochures, price lists, owner’s manuals, and illustrated parts lists dating from the late 19th century through the 1940s. The major emphasis lies in tractors and threshers, but the entire range of farm equipment can be found in these catalogs, representing some 150 different manufacturers and suppliers—primarily Midwestern firms, with a limited representation of...
Dates:
1902-2014; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
H. Cecil Wolsey collection
Collection
Identifier: 00111
Scope and Contents
Much of the collection consists of Wolsey's copies of booklets, brochures, catalogs, and manuals concerning combines, corn pickers, and other machinery and parts made by and for the Oliver Corporation. Additional items included in the collection are production charts (1960-1962), speed charts for various machines, correspondence regarding a damage suit against the company (1967), and books on machinery and engineering principles.
Dates:
1939 - 1967
Oliver Corporation collection
Collection
Identifier: 00094
Scope and Contents
The collection includes business records, newspaper clippings, catalogs, centennial articles, and historical data related to the Oliver Corporation and its owners. Also included in the collection are photographs from the Centennial of Oliver Corporation, ranging from the banquet that was held to the plant tours given by the executives. There are also photographs of Oliver Corporation train cars, board members, and a group photograph of the National Association of Thresher Manufacturers from...
Dates:
1870 - 1961
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- University Archives and Historical Collections 2
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- Battle Creek (Mich.) 2
- Agricultural machinery 1
- Agricultural machinery -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Agricultural machinery -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Agricultural machinery -- Catalogs 1
- Agricultural machinery -- Maintenance and repair 1
- Agricultural machinery industry 1
- Agriculture -- Periodicals 1
- Battle Creek enquirer (Battle Creek, Mich. : 1907) 1
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- Farm equipment -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Farm equipment -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Farm tractors -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Farm tractors -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Handbooks and manuals 1
- Industries -- Michigan 1
- Military supplies 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Periodicals 1
- Photographs 1
- Threshing machines 1
- Threshing machines -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Threshing machines -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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- Oliver Corporation 2
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