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Vintage WEST VIRGINIA GROWN Gus Douglass WV Dept Agriculture Hand Fan Cow Ad

This is a unique vintage hand fan advertising « WEST VIRGINIA GROWN » featuring a stylized cow head illustration. The fan also promotes « GUS R. DOUGLASS COMMISSIONER WV DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. » It’s a charming piece of agricultural advertising history from West Virginia, likely distributed at a fair or event. The fan is made of cardstock with a wooden handle. It measures approximately 11.5 inches long from the tip of the handle to the top of the fan, with the circular fan portion being about 7 inches in diameter. The item is in good condition with minor signs of age and handling consistent with its vintage nature. A great addition for collectors of agricultural memorabilia, West Virginia history, or vintage advertising.

Vintage Dempster Convert-O Jet Water System Promotional Hand Fan 11.5” x 7.5”

The Vintage Dempster Convert-O Jet Water System Promotional Hand Fan is a unique collectible advertising item featuring the Dempster Manufacturing Company. This original hand fan showcases a multi-color design with a theme of agriculture, making it a perfect addition to any collection of agricultural memorabilia. Made in the United States, this 11.5” x 7.5” fan is a rare find for collectors of vintage advertising items and a great conversation piece for those with a passion for agriculture and its history.

RARE Conklin Farm & Road Wagon Company Olean NY 1900 Letterhead Billhead NOS

NICE Original Advertising Billhead / Letterhead New Conklin Wagon Company Farm & Road Wagons Olean, New York ca 1900 For offer, a very nice old Advertising engraved / lithograph letter head / bill head! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original – NOT a Reproduction – Guaranteed !! Nice graphic print showing wagon. NOS – New Old Stock – Near mint – fine condition – over 100 years old. Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect 19th / 20th century Americana advertisement ad history, United States of America printing, American transportation, farming, horse drawn, etc. this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 1245 A wagon (also alternatively and archaically spelt waggon in British and Commonwealth English) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans (see below), used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people. Wagons are immediately distinguished from carts (which have two wheels) and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles primarily for carrying people, such as carriages. Wagons are usually pulled by animals such as horses, mules or oxen. They may be pulled by one animal or by several, often in pairs or teams. However, there are examples of human-propelled wagons, such as mining corfs. A wagon was formerly called a wain and one who builds or repairs wagons is a wainwright. More specifically, a wain is a type of horse- or oxen-drawn, load-carrying vehicle, used for agricultural purposes rather than transporting people. A wagon or cart, usually four-wheeled;[1] for example, a haywain, normally has four wheels, but the term has now acquired slightly poetical connotations, so is not always used with technical correctness. However, a two-wheeled « haywain » would be a hay cart, as opposed to a carriage. Wain is also an archaic term for a chariot. Wain can also be a verb, to carry or deliver, and has other meanings. The wagon has four wheels made out of wood and steel. The wagon wheel had an average weight of upwards of 300 pounds. The wagon wheels had a steel outer edge of about 1 inch thick and a wooden inner edge of about two inches thick. There are up to 40 spokes in an average wagon wheel all made out of wood. There are two steel rings around the middle of the wheel to hold the spokes on the wheel. A person who drives wagons is called a « wagoner »,[2][3] a « teamster », a « bullocky », a « muleskinner », or simply a « driver ». Terminology and design[edit]The exact name and terminology used is often dependent on the design or shape of the wagon. If low and sideless may be called a dray, trolley or float. When traveling over long distances and periods, wagons may be covered with cloth to protect their contents from the elements; these are « covered wagons ». If it has a permanent top enclosing it, it may be called a « van ». Turning radius was a longstanding problem with wagons, dictated by the distance between the front wheels and the bed of the wagon—namely, the point where the rotating wheels collide with the side of the wagon when turning.[4] Many earlier designs required a very large turning radius; however, shrinking the width of the bed means decreasing the size of the load.[4] As this is a problem that carts (by virtue of their two-wheeled nature) do not face, this factor, combined with their lighter weight, meant that carts were long preferred over wagons for many uses.[4] The general solutions to this problem involved several modifications to the front-axle assembly. The front axle assembly of a wagon consists of an axle, a pair of wheels and a round plate with a pin in its centre that sits halfway between the wheels. A round plate with a hole in its centre is located on the underside of the wagon. The plate on the wagon, in turn, sits on the plate on the axle between the wheels. This arrangement allows the axle and wheels to turn horizontally. The pin and hole arrangement could be reversed. The horse harness is attached to this assembly. To enable the wagon to turn in as little space as possible, the front pair of wheels are often made smaller than the rear pair to allow them to turn close under the vehicle sides,[5] and to allow them to turn still further, the wagon body may be waisted. This technique eventually led to further designs well-adapted to narrow areas; the front wheels of express wagons, trolleys and floats are small enough to turn under the vehicle’s body. Types of wagons[edit] A Conestoga wagon, a type of freight wagon used extensively in the United States and Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries for long-distance hauling A bakery delivery wagon in Queensland, Australia A Romani Vardo from England.Wagons have served numerous purposes, with numerous corresponding designs.[4] As with motorized vehicles, some are designed to serve as many functions as possible, while others are highly specialized. This section will discuss a broad overview of the general classes of wagons; for details on specific types of wagons, see the individual links. Farm wagon[edit]Farm wagons are built for general multi-purpose usage in an agricultural or rural setting. These include gathering hay, crops and wood, and delivering them to the farmstead or market.[4] A common form found throughout Europe is the leiterwagen (« ladder wagon »), a large wagon where the sides often consist of ladders strapped in place to hold in hay or grain, though these could be removed to serve other needs.[4] A common type of farm wagon particular to North America is the buckboard. Freight wagon[edit]Freight wagons are wagons used for the overland hauling of freight and bulk commodities.[6] In the United States and Canada, the Conestoga wagon was a predominant form of wagon used for hauling freight in the late 18th and 19th centuries, often used for hauling goods on the Great Wagon Road in the Appalachian Valley and across the Appalachian Mountains. Even larger freight wagons existed. For instance, the « twenty-mule team » wagons, used for hauling borax from Death Valley, could haul 36 short tons (33 t) per pair.[7] The wagons’ bodies were 16 feet (4.9 m) long and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep; the rear wheels were 7 feet (2.1 m) in diameter.[7] Delivery wagon[edit]A delivery wagon is a wagon used to deliver merchandise such as milk, bread, or produce to houses or markets, as well as to commercial customers, often in urban settings. The concept of express wagons and of paneled delivery vans developed in the 19th century.[8] By the end of the 19th century, delivery wagons were often finely painted, lettered and varnished, so as to serve as advertisement for the particular business through the quality of the wagon.[9][10] Special forms of delivery wagon include an ice wagon and a milk wagon. Nomadic wagons[edit]Some wagons are intended to serve as mobile residences or workshops. These include the Vardo, a traditional wagon of the 19th-century British Romani people. Steam wagons[edit]The steam wagon, a self-powered development of the horse-drawn wagon, was a surprisingly late innovation, entering service only in the late nineteenth century. Wagon train[edit]Main article: wagon trainIn migration and military settings, wagons were often found in large groups called wagon trains. In warfare, large groups of supply wagons were used to support traveling armies with food and munitions, forming « baggage trains ». During the American Civil War, these wagon trains would often be accompanied by the wagons of private merchants, known as sutlers, who sold goods to soldiers, as well as the wagons of photographers and news reporters.[11] Special purpose-built support wagons existed for blacksmithing, telegraphy and even observation ballooning.[12] In migration settings, such as the emigrant trails of the American West and the Great Trek of South Africa, wagons would travel together for support, navigation and protection. A group of wagons may be used to create an improvised fort called a laager, made by circling them to form an enclosure. In these settings, a chuckwagon is a small wagon used for providing food and cooking, essentially a portable kitchen. Wagons in art[edit]An oil painting of a large steerable cart being drawn by two strong horses through a riverA detail of The Hay Wain by John ConstableWikimedia Commons has media related to Wagons in art.As a common, important element in history and life, wagons have been the subjects of artwork. Some examples are the paintings The Hay Wain, The Haywain Triptych and on the Oregon Trail Memorial half dollar. Motorized wagons[edit]During a transition to mechanized vehicles from animal powered, the term wagon was sometimes used such as with the Duryea Motor Wagon. In modern times the term Station wagon survives as a type of automobile. See also[edit]Animal powered vehiclesAraba (carriage)Bronocice potCartCarriageCircle the wagonsHorse-drawn vehicle Lorry (horse-drawn) OmnibusOx-wagonTelegaToy wagonTypes of carriagesWagonetteWagon-wheel effectWright (disambiguation) Nearby towns in Cattaraugus County: Cities[edit]OleanSalamancaTowns[edit]AlleganyAshfordCarrolltonColdspringConewangoDaytonEast OttoElko (dissolved 1965)EllicottvilleFarmersvilleFranklinvilleFreedomGreat ValleyHinsdaleHumphreyIschuaLeonLittle ValleyLyndonMachiasMansfieldNapoliNew AlbionOleanOttoPerrysburgPersiaPortvilleRandolphRed HouseSalamancaSouth ValleyYorkshireVillages[edit]AlleganyCattaraugusDelevanEllicottvilleFranklinvilleGowandaLittle Valley (county seat)PortvilleSouth DaytonCensus-designated places[edit]East RandolphLime LakeLimestoneMachiasPerrysburgRandolphSt. BonaventureWest ValleyWeston MillsYorkshireHamlets[edit]Farmersville StationJimerson TownKill BuckSanduskySteamburgVandalia Town Of CarrolltonVersaillesIndian reservations[edit]Allegany ReservationCattaraugus ReservationOil Springs Reservation

RARE Billhead – Union Agricultural – Dodge Reaper Ohio Mower – 1860 Auburn NY

RARE Original Billhead Union Agricultural Works Dodge, Stevenson & Company Reapers and mowers Auburn, New York 1860 For offer, a rare old advertising piece of ephemera! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original – NOT a Reproduction – Guaranteed !! Great graphic of Ohio mower. Early. In good to very good condition. Fold marks: NOTE – will be sent folded up, as found. Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect 19th century Americana advertisement ad history, United States of America printing, American, farming, etc. this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 3367 A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used in Roman times in what would become modern-day France. The Gallic reaper involved a comb which collected the heads, with an operator knocking the grain into a box for later threshing.[1] Most modern mechanical reapers cut grass; most also gather it, either by windrowing or picking it up. Modern machines that not only cut and gather the grass but also thresh its seeds (the grain), winnow the grain, and deliver it to a truck or wagon, called combine harvesters or simply combines, which are the engineering descendants of earlier reapers. Hay is harvested somewhat differently from grain; in modern haymaking, the machine that cuts the grass is called a hay mower or, if integrated with a conditioner, a mower-conditioner. As a manual task, cutting of both grain and hay may be called reaping, involving scythes, sickles, and cradles, followed by differing downstream steps. Traditionally all such cutting could be called reaping, although a distinction between reaping of grain grasses and mowing of hay grasses has long existed; it was only after a decade of attempts at combined grain reaper/hay mower machines (1830s to 1840s) that designers of mechanical implements began resigning them to separate classes.[2] Mechanical reapers substantially changed agriculture from their appearance in the 1830s until the 1860s through 1880s, when they evolved into related machines, often called by different names (self-raking reaper, harvester, reaper-binder, grain binder, binder), that collected and bound the sheaves of grain with wire or twine.[3] Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States. Located at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York, the city had a population of 26,866 at the 2020 census.[3] It is the largest city of Cayuga County, the county seat,[4] and the site of the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility, as well as the William H. Seward House Museum and the house of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.