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Farming Tools of the Present Time
Farming Tools of the Present Time

Farming Tools of the Present Time

Date1870-1890
MediumWood engraving and letterpress; printer's ink on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 7/8 x 6 1/16in. (12.4 x 15.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 6 1/4 x 9 5/16in. (15.9 x 23.7cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionAgricultural implements are displayed in an interior. Included are covered pumps, a grindstone, axes, shears, scythes, rakes, shovels, churns, pitchforks, hoppers, plows, a covered pump, a pruning hook, a ladder, and two weathervanes, one with a rooster, the other with a plow.
Object number2002.143.12
InscribedOn recto, letterpress title at upper center, "FARMING TOOLS OF THE PRESENT TIME, / As exhibited by ROBERT B. BRADLEY & CO., 93 State St., New Haven, Conn."
On verso, letterpress text with title, "AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES."; in pencil, lower right, accession number.
NotesSource Note: Print is a page from a book, but thus far it has not been possible to identify the book. The only book entitled "Agriculture in the United States" was published in 1929, and this is obviously from a much earlier publication. "Agriculture in the United States" may be a chapter heading rather than the title of the book. (Finlay 1/8/2003)
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Reticule
    Unknown
    1824-1830
    Connecticut Historical Society collection, 2000.191.93  © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Socie…
    Northern Survey Company
    1880-1890
    Gift of Samuel St. John Morgan, 1950.82.0  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1861 - 1865
    Just Arrived.
    Thomas Rowlandson
    1847
    Gift of the estate of Adele R. Hough, 1970.24.2  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Conn…
    Unknown
    before 1900
    Connecticut Historical Society collection, 2000.191.269  © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Soci…
    Northern Survey Company
    1880-1890
    Family Register.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1840-1848
    Family Register.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1857-1867
    Pitcher
    Shorthose & Co.
    about 1815