Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Bernis B. Brown Collection
Brown, Bernis B., 1888-1960
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
NMAH.AC.1047
Archival Resource Key
8.5 Cubic feet
17 boxes, 1 map folder
1852-1972
English
.
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Immediate Source of Acquisiton
Collected for the National Museum of American History, Division of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into seven series.
Personal Materials, 1945-1952
Correspondence, 1912-1960
Photographs, 1896-1958
Writings, 1915-1958
Research Notes, 1857-1958
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings, 1898-1972
Periodicals, 1946-1960
Trade Literature, 1852-1960
Biographical/Historical note
Bernis Bertram Brown (1888-1960) was born in Gillians, Missouri. Brown worked for the Austin-Western Road Machinery Company and was a dealer, salesmen, and repairman of farm equipment, especially steam powered engines. Brown was a regular contributor to the
Iron-Men Album Magazine with articles about valves, reverse gears and various steam and gas engines.
Preferred Citation
Bernis B. Brown Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2022.
Ownership and Custodial History
Collected for the National Museum of American History, Division of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (now called the Division of Work and Industry). Transferred to the Archives Center in 2007.
Related Materials
Materials in the Archives Center
Carterpillar Tractor Company Photograph Collection, NMAH.AC.0146
John K. Parlett Collection of Agricultural Ephemera, NMAH.AC.1225
Scope and Contents note
The collection documents the history of farm machinery in America, especially steam-powered machines, with an emphasis on tractors. The collections includes Brown's correspondence with individuals and institutions regarding his research and his collection, writings, research notes, newspaper and magizine clippings, photographs, periodicals, and trade literature. Many of Brown's writings appeared in the
Iron-Men Album. Also included is a history Brown compiled on early American farm power titled, Pictorial History of Early American Farm Power, 1953.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Agricultural machinery
Books
Catalogs
Clippings
Correspondence -- 20th century
Farm equipment
Magazines (periodicals) -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- 20th century
Newsletters -- 20th century
Notebooks
Patents
Photographs -- 20th century
Steam-engines
Tractors
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
Personal Materials
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
1945-1952
Bernis B. Brown, personal reminiscences
Archival Resource Key
1951
1
1
Fundamentals of Earth Moving, Caterpillar certificate (for B. Brown)
Archival Resource Key
1945
1
2
Sketches by Bernis B. Brown
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
3
Rotary conveyor shelf drawings by Bernis B. Brown
Archival Resource Key
1952
1
4
Survey of Irrigation by Bernis Brown
Archival Resource Key
1948-09-25
1
5
Swing crane attachment for crawler-type tractors designed by Bernis B. Brown
Archival Resource Key
1 Blueprint
13 3/4 in x 20 3/4 in
1930-12-19
1
Correspondence
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
1912-1960
Correspondence, A
Archival Resource Key
1953-1958
1
6
Correspondence, B
Archival Resource Key
1946-1951
1
7
Correspondence, C
Archival Resource Key
1949-1960
1
8
Correspondence, D
Archival Resource Key
1951, 1959
1
9
Correspondence, E
Archival Resource Key
1948-1950
1
10
Correspondence, F
Archival Resource Key
1947-1960
1
11
Correspondence, G
Archival Resource Key
1948-1953
1
12
Correspondence, H
Archival Resource Key
1947-1958
1
13
Correspondence, Higgins, F. Hal
Archival Resource Key
1958-1960
1
14
Correspondence, I
Archival Resource Key
1947, 1957
1
15
Correspondence, J
Archival Resource Key
1947, 1960
1
16
Correspondence, K
Archival Resource Key
1947-1959
1
17
Correspondence, Kisner, Fred W.
Archival Resource Key
1947-1952
1
18
Correspondence, L
Archival Resource Key
1947-1958
1
19
Correspondence, M
Archival Resource Key
1946-1959
1
20
Correspondence, N
Archival Resource Key
1952
1
21
Correspondence, O
Archival Resource Key
1947, 1949
1
22
Correspondence, P
Archival Resource Key
1947-1960
1
23
Correspondence, Q
Archival Resource Key
1947-1949, 1952
1
24
Correspondence, R
Archival Resource Key
1947-1951
1
25
Correspondence, S
Archival Resource Key
1947-1958
1
26
Correspondence, T
Archival Resource Key
1950-1952
1
27
Correspondence, U
Archival Resource Key
1952-1953
1
28
Correspondence, W
Archival Resource Key
1947-1959
1
29
Correspondence, Y
Archival Resource Key
1949
1
30
Correspondence, Miscellaneous unidentified
Archival Resource Key
1912-1959
1
31
Photographs
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
1896-1958
Tractors and threshers
Archival Resource Key
1896-1958
2
1
Catalog of tractor photographs
Archival Resource Key
1954
2
2
Danville Manufacturing Company, Danville, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
3
Lambert Incorporated (lawn spreader)
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
4
Page Tractors
Archival Resource Key
1959, undated
2
5
Pioneer Manufacturing Company, Richfield, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
6
Rede Tractors
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
7
Waterbury Tool Division, Waterbury, Connecticut
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
8
Scope and Contents
Includes a brochure for Waterbury Portable Power titled, "Wherever work's done...it's much easier...quicker, too, with Waterbury Portable Power."
Unidentified tractors and implements
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
9
Images of tractors (from publications)
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
10
Writings
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1915-1958
Agricultural History, Volume 31, No. 2
Archival Resource Key
1957-04
3
1
Scope and Contents
Includes an article about Philander H. Standish, inventor of a steam plow.
Clymer, Floyd. Album of Historical Steam and Threshing Equipment , No. 1
Archival Resource Key
1949
3
2
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers. Power, Navigation and Fish Facilities on the Columbia River at Bonneville Dam
Archival Resource Key
1948
3
3
Etcheverry, B.A. Irrigation Practice and Engineering
Archival Resource Key
1915
3
4
Five Place Logarithms of Trigonometric Functions
Archival Resource Key
1945-1946
3
5
Scope and Contents
Consists of pocket size loose-leaf data sheets belonging to Bernis B. Brown when he worked for the Caterpillar Tractor Company.
Gray, R.B. Development of the Agricultural Tractor in the United States
Archival Resource Key
1952-1956
3
6
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence with R.B. Gray, head of the Division of Farm Machinery at the United States Department of Agriculture and a brochure for Harrison Machine Works, Belleville, Illinois.
Gray, R.B. Development of the Agricultural Tractor in the United States
Archival Resource Key
1958
3
7
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc. edited series
Archival Resource Key
1940s
3
8
Scope and Contents
Includes eleven editorials by James H. McGraw, Jr., President of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company:
Sustained Construction Activity, One Step toward High Level Employment
Russia and America Allies or Else...
Steady Jobs and Equipment Buying
Freight Rates and Industry Location
Labor and Management Meet--for Peace or Civil War?
The German Economic Peace Hard, Soft...or Workable?
Controlled Atoms or Controlled Lives
Incentives Furnish the Drive
Loan to Britain...Investment in World Economic Unity
The Closed Shop Key to Labor Monopoly
Industry Wide Bargaining...Death Trap for Business, Suicide for Free Labor
New Departure Handbook
Archival Resource Key
1941
3
9
Scope and Contents
The handbook contains imformation about weights and measures, math tables and functions and select pages from the TM 5-255 Aviation Engineers, United States War Department, 1944. Also included is the official publication of LeTourneau, Inc.,
The Co-Operator, February-May, 1941.
Smith, T.H. The Album of American Steam Traction Engines
Archival Resource Key
1959
4
1
Smith, T.H. The Album of American Steam Traction Engines
Archival Resource Key
1959
4
2
Brown, Bernis B. Pictorial History of Early American Farm Power
Archival Resource Key
1953
4
3
Scope and Contents
Compiled by Bernis Brown, these materials contain periodicals, newspaper clippings, advertisements, catalogs and copies of patents related to farm equipment, especially tractors.
Brown, Bernis B. Pictorial History of Early American Farm Power
Archival Resource Key
1953
4
4
United States Department of Agriculture. Partial History of the Development of Grain Threshing Implements and Machines
Archival Resource Key
1949
4
5
Wik, Reynold M. Steam Power on the American Farm (manuscript)
Archival Resource Key
1953-1958
5
1
Wik, Reynold M. Steam Power on the American Farm (manuscript)
Archival Resource Key
1953-1958
5
2
Loose leaf data sheets
Archival Resource Key
1940s
5
3
Scope and Contents
This small notebook was assembled by Bernis Brown and contains notes, articles, and other printed materials from publications about earthmoving and tract equipment. Also included is a Caterpillar Tractor Company Sales Development Division, Fundamentals of Earthmoving Program, 1945. The program details a five-day course of intensive study for experienced men who own Caterpillar equipment.
Loose leaf data sheets
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1942
5
4
Scope and Contents
Includes a small notebook of Lefax Leaf and Facts, a pocket-size system of loose-leaf data sheets relating to mathematical symbols, pipe and water design, power and velocity and excavation tables. Also included is a postcard of the New Entrance Hotel, Mammoth Cave, 1927.
Research Notes
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1857-1958
Athabasca Oil Sands, McMurray, Alberta
Archival Resource Key
1936-1944
5
5
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of the
Nor' West Miner, 1940, a monthly publication devoted to Northern mining development in Alberta and a topographical map of Hogsback, Abasand Oils Limited, 1943.
Bibliographic citations and data about steam engines, compiled by Bernis Brown
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
5
6
Early California Farming Machinery, data and information
Archival Resource Key
1874, 1947, 1957-1958
5
7
Caterpillar and LeTourneau company data and information
Archival Resource Key
1938-1946
5
8
Caterpillar and LeTourneau company data and information
Archival Resource Key
1938-1946
6
1
Scope and Contents
File contains newspaper clippings, telegrams, articles, memoranda, field bulletins, and notes. Also included is the
Northwest Contractor and Engineer, news of the Northwest's highways, airports, and engineering construction for March 1944.
Gasoline and kerosene tractor information
Archival Resource Key
1911-1930
6
2
Scope and Contents
File contains the "Farm Power and the Post-War Tractor," remarks given by L.B. Sperry of International Harvester, 1944.
Gasoline and kerosene tractor information
Archival Resource Key
1902-1957
6
3
Scope and Contents
Includes some Caterpillar trade literature from the Caterpillar Sales Kit, 1940.
J. Grimes, history of valves
Archival Resource Key
1888-1957
6
4
International Lists of tractors and steam engine manufacturers
Archival Resource Key
1949, undated
6
5
Midwest Barley Improvement Conference
Archival Resource Key
1952
6
6
Scope and Contents
Includes a report from the Barley Improvement Conference, 1952, sponsored by the Midwest Barley Improvement Association.
Patent data (valve gears, track-layer machines, traction plows and threshing machines)
Archival Resource Key
1911-1958
7
1
Patent data and information (traction engines)
Archival Resource Key
1860-1911
7
2
Patent data and information (traction engines)
Archival Resource Key
1860-1911
7
3
Patents related to traction engines, harvesters, threshers, plows, cultivators, and steam boilers
Archival Resource Key
1868-1893
7
4
Patent data and information (for valve gears)
Archival Resource Key
1857-1958
7
5
Patent data and information (for valve gears)
Archival Resource Key
1857-1958
7
6
Pedrail Tractor
Archival Resource Key
1903
8
1
Valve gear data
Archival Resource Key
1872-1912, 1958
8
2
Thresher Men's 6th Annual Reunion, Pontiac, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1954
8
3
Scope and Contents
Includes program and photographs.
Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association, Inc., reunion flier
Archival Resource Key
1958
8
4
Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion, program
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
5
E.J. Woolf (valve gears)
Archival Resource Key
1889-1920, 1957
8
6
Notebook of data about tractors
Archival Resource Key
1885
8
7
Scope and Contents
File contains a postcard for Rath Black Hawk Bacon titled "Real corn-fed Iowa bacon," 1959.
Writings about tractors
Archival Resource Key
1930
8
8
Pacific Builder and Engineer, Volume 40, No. 23
Archival Resource Key
1934
8
9A
Recent machinery patents (from Threshermen's Review)
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
1
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
1898-1972
Newspaper clippings, articles, and data about tractors
Archival Resource Key
1898-1954, 1972
8
9
Scope and Contents
Includes a photograph of Bernis B. Brown and Pierce Miller, 1957.
Newspaper clippings about Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of the Interior
Archival Resource Key
1954
8
10
Newspaper clippings about tractors and threshers
Archival Resource Key
1903-1912
8
11
Newspaper clippings and articles
Archival Resource Key
1946-1960
8
12
European traction engines
Archival Resource Key
1905-1960
9
1
Scope and Contents
Includes a catalog of steam engines and threshing machines for Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries, Ltd., Ipswich, England, 1905.
Hydraulic systems articles
Archival Resource Key
1936-1944
9
2
Steam engine articles (by Bernis B. Brown)
Archival Resource Key
1957-1959
9
3
[Last Roundup for the Iron Horse?], 8 pages
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
1
Examples of steam, gasoline and horsepower, Oakland Tribune
Archival Resource Key
1944-01-09
1
Example of tractor used during World War I, Independence Day Parade in 1919, Oakland, California, Oakland Tribune
Archival Resource Key
1942-12-06
1
Robinson Machinery Company, Gregerson ditching machine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Archival Resource Key
1 Blueprint
22 in x 32 in
1946-01-28
1
Periodicals
Series 7
Archival Resource Key
1946-1960
Engineers and Engine Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1955
9
4
Engineers and Engine Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1956
9
5
Engineers and Engine Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1957
9
6
Engineers and Engine Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1958-01-1958-06
9
7
Engineers and Engine Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1958-07-1958-12
9
8
Engineers and Engine Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1959
9
9
The Farm Album
Archival Resource Key
1946
9
10
The Farm Album
Archival Resource Key
1947
9
11
The Farm Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1948
10
1
The Farm Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1949
10
2
The Farm Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1950
10
3
Canadian Farm Implements
Archival Resource Key
1954-04
10
4
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1950
10
5
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1951
10
6
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1952
10
7
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1952
10
8
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1953
10
9
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1954
10
10
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1955
10
11
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1956
10
12
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1957
10
13
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1958
10
14
The Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1959-1960
10
15
Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1960-07-1960-08
11
1
Iron-Men Album Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1960-11-1960-12
11
1
Steam Engines
Archival Resource Key
1960-01-1960-02
11
2
Steam Engines
Archival Resource Key
1959-01-1959-12
11
3
Trade Literature
Series 8
Archival Resource Key
1852-1960
A.C.E. Machinery Limited, England
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
4
Advance-Rumley Thresher Company, Inc., LaPorte, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
5
Advance Thresher Company, Battle Creek, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
1894
11
6
Anglo-Swedish Construction Company (ANSCO)
Archival Resource Key
1937
11
7
Allis-Chalmers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
1959
11
8
American-Abell Engine and Thresher Company, Ltd.
Archival Resource Key
1955, 1960
11
9
American Pipe and Construction Company, Oregon
Archival Resource Key
1959
11
10
Ames Iron Works
Archival Resource Key
1870, 1873, 1956
11
11
American Road Equipment Company, Omaha, Nebraska
Archival Resource Key
1960
11
12
Arrow Manufacturing Company, Denver, Colorado
Archival Resource Key
1960
11
13
C. Aultman and Company, Canton, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1882-1956
11
14
Auttmant and Taylor Machinery Company
Archival Resource Key
1879-1886, 1959
11
15
A.D. Baker, Swanton, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1903-1919, 1958
11
16
Avery Company, Peoria, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1883-1923
11
17
17
2
Banting Manufacturing Company, Toledo, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
18
Barker Feeder Company, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
1902
11
19
Barnes Manufacturing Company, Mansfield, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1959
11
20
Benicia Agricultural Works, San Francisco
Archival Resource Key
1875
11
21
Scope and Contents
Includes Bronson separators and Buffalo Pitts and Bronson Pitts threshers.
Best Manufacturing Company (Daniel Best), San Leandro, California
Archival Resource Key
1890-1950
12
1
Scope and Contents
Includes information about De Lafayette Remington tractors, a catalog for Daniel Best's Agricultural Works (1891) and a Red Cross Benefit Program for Best Manufacturing. The program included Black-face comedian Charles H. Manning, the Hawaiian Band, Soft Central Pacific Airs, and the movie "Tracklayer Tidings" produced by C.L. Best.
Birdsall Company, Auburn, New York
Archival Resource Key
1852-1914
12
2
Bucyrus Erie, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
3
Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company, Findlay, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1911
12
4
Buda Company, Harvey, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1941
12
5
Buffalo-Pitts Company, Buffalo, New York
Archival Resource Key
1891-1912
12
6
Calaveras Cement Company, San Francisco, California
Archival Resource Key
1959
12
7
Canadian Thresherman and Farmer
Archival Resource Key
1909
12
8
J.I. Case Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
1881-1943, 1959
12
9
17
2
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of the
Case Eagle, Centennial Threshing Machinery issue, 1942.
Caterpillar Tractor Company, Peoria, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1939
12
10
Scope and Contents
File folder contains the Servicemen's Reference Book for Caterpillar Fuel Injection Pump Housings, 1943.
Colean Implement Company, Peoria, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1874-1908, 1959
12
11
Combustion Engineering Company, Inc. (type V2M steam generating units)
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
11A
Construction Products Corporation, Lynwood, California
Archival Resource Key
1949
12
12
Cooper-Bessemer, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1879-1880s; 1933; 1954
12
13
Crane Company, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1945
12
14
Crook Company, California
Archival Resource Key
1959
12
15
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, South Bend, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
16
John S. Davis' Sons Threshing Machinery and Engines
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
17
John Deere Industrial, Moline, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1959
12
18
Ditz Brothers, Santa Clara, Californnia
Archival Resource Key
1959
12
19
Eagle Machine Works, Indianapolis, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
1890, 1893
12
20
Eimco Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah
Archival Resource Key
1959
13
1
Emerson-Brantingham Company
Archival Resource Key
1911
17
2
Joseph Enright
Archival Resource Key
1876-1883
13
2
Erie City Iron Works, Erie, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1953, 1958
13
3
Essick Manufacturing Company, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Archival Resource Key
1960
13
4
Euclid Road Machinery Company, Cleveland, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1959, undated
13
5
A.B. Farquhar Company, York, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1884, 1924, 1958
13
6
Fairbanks Steam Shovel Company, Marion, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
7
Frick and Company
Archival Resource Key
1877-1912, 1947
13
8
Gaar, Scott and Company
Archival Resource Key
1880-1912, 1958
13
9
Galion Iron Works and Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1940
13
10
Garwood Industries, Detroit, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
11
Geiser Manufacturing Company, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1887, 1947
13
12
J.H. Gentry (valves)
Archival Resource Key
1912
13
13
Good Year
Archival Resource Key
1959
13
14
Groton Traction Engine (Conger Manufacturing Company)
Archival Resource Key
1903
13
15
Hanna Engineering Works, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
16
Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Company
Archival Resource Key
1886
13
17
Harrison Machine Works, Belleville, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1880-1899, 1958
13
18
Hart-Parr Company, Charles City, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1911-1923
17
3
Heil Company, Hillside, New Jersey and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
19
Heilman Machine Works, Evansville, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
1892
13
20
Henry Industrial Equipment
Archival Resource Key
1959
13
21
Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, California
Archival Resource Key
1893-1955
13
22
Frank G. Hough Company, Libertyville, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
23
Huber Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1896-1913, 1925
13
24
Illinois Thresher Company, Sycamore, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1915
13
25
International Construction Equipment, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
26
International Harvester Company of America
Archival Resource Key
1912, 1917
17
2
International Harvester Company, Trac Tractor
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
1
Isaacson Iron Works, Seattle, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1941
14
2
Bryan Jackson (traction engine)
Archival Resource Key
1891-1894
14
3
R. Johnson Mfg., Company, Freeport, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1903
14
3A
Scope and Contents
Includes advertisement for Heine Manufacturing Company, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1903
D. June and Company, Freemont, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1902
14
4
Keck-Gonnerman Company, Mount Vernon, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
1910, 1914
14
5
F. Kitten's Machine Works, Ferdinand, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
6
Fritz Kohler Universitats Mechaniker, Leipzig
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
7
Koehring Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
8
Lane and Bodley Company's Foundry and Machine Works, Cincinnati, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1875, 1882
14
9
J.B. Lang Engine Works, Ithaca, New York
Archival Resource Key
1890, 1900
14
10
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Co
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950s
14
11
Laufenburgs traction engine
Archival Resource Key
1893, 1957
14
12
Lawn Medic, Inc., Rochester, New York
Archival Resource Key
1972
14
13
Leader Tractor Manufacturing Company, Des Moines, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
14
LeTourneau, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1940-1944, 1960
14
15
LeTourneau, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1939-1942
14
16
Scope and Contents
Includes the answers to a "Tournapull Quiz."
LeTourneau, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1937-1939
14
17
LeTourneau-Westinghouse Company, Peoria, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
18
Link-Belt Speeder Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1939
14
19
Lull Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
20
Mansfield Machine Works, Mansfield, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
21
Marion Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
22
Massey-Ferguson Industrial Division, Wichita, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1960
14
23
J and H. McLaren, Ltd., Leeds, England
Archival Resource Key
1922
14
24
Julius J.D. McNamar, Newark, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
25
Marseilles Manufacturing Company
Archival Resource Key
1902
14
26
Miller and Smith Manufacturing Company
Archival Resource Key
1959
14
27
Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
15
1
Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company
Archival Resource Key
1894-1911, 1947
15
2
Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company
Archival Resource Key
1911
17
2
Morris Threshing Machine Company, Brantford, Canada
Archival Resource Key
1899-1909, 1953
15
3
M-R-S Manufacturing Company, Jackson, Mississippi (Mississippi Wagon)
Archival Resource Key
undated
15
4
National Thresher Association, Inc., annual reunion
Archival Resource Key
17
4
New Holland, New Holland, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1946
17
2
Nichols and Shepard Company, Battle Creek, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
1880
15
5
Nicholas and Shepard Company
Archival Resource Key
1902-1912
17
2
Northern Equipment Company, Erie, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1945
15
6
Northwest Thresher Company, Minnesota [Northwest Manufacturing and Car Company]
Archival Resource Key
1885-1903
15
7
Ohio Engine and Thresher Company, Upper Sandusky, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1892, 1958
15
8
Oliver Chilled Plow Works
Archival Resource Key
1912
17
2
Oliver Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1948
15
9
Ottawa Steel Products, Inc., Ottawa, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1948
15
10
Pacific Implement Company, San Jose, California
Archival Resource Key
1959
15
11
Parsons Rich and Company, Newton, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1902
17
5
Port Huron Engine and Thresher Company, Port Huron, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
1949-1959
15
12
Jacob Price, San Leandro, California
Archival Resource Key
1890, 1956
15
13
Reese Engineering Company, Los Angeles, California
Archival Resource Key
undated
15
14
Harvey W. Rice (straw burner engine)
Archival Resource Key
bulk 1874-1876
15
15
Rivinus Inc., Eureka, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1960
15
16
Roberts and Doan (Riley Roberts Doan)
Archival Resource Key
1875, 1889
15
17
Robinson and Company Machine Works, Richmond, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
undated
15
18
M. Rumley Company, LaPorte, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
1883-1912, 1958
17
6
Russell and Company, Massillon, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1890-1912
15
19
Ryan and McDonald, Waterloo, New York
Archival Resource Key
1888
15
20
Scheidler Machine Works Company, Newark, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1903
15
21
Shunk Manufacturing Company, Bucyrus, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
undated
15
22
Simmeringer Maschinen und Waggonbau
Archival Resource Key
1925
15
23
Lavosier Spence, Martins Ferry, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1886, 1956
15
24
Stoughton Wagon Company, Stoughton, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
7
Springfield Engine and Thresher Company, Springfield, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1900
16
1
A.W. Stevens Company
Archival Resource Key
1901-1934, 1956
16
2
Riley Stoker Corporation, Worcester, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1946
16
3
Taylor Manufacturing Company, Westminster, Maryland
Archival Resource Key
1882, 1956
16
4
Thaleg and Hock, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
5
Thew Automatic Shovel Company, Lorain, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1919, 1926, 1959
16
6
20th Century Manufacturing Company, Inc., Dayton, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1902
16
7
Union Iron Works Company, Newark, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1894
16
8
Unit Crane and Shovel Corp, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
1960
16
9
Universal Machine and Equipment Company, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
10
Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company, Trojan Division
Archival Resource Key
1959
16
11
Waterloo Threshing Machine Company, Waterloo, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1905, 1907
16
12
Watertown Steam Engine Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
13
Wedworth Wadsworth (rotary steam plow)
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
14
Western-Westin Company
Archival Resource Key
1934
16
15
Scope and Contents
Includes materials for Austin-Western Road Machinery Company, Aurora, Illinois.
Westinghouse Company, Schenectady, New York
Archival Resource Key
1886, 1911
16
16
George White and Sons Company, London, Ontario
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
17
Wood Brothers Threshing Machinery, Des Moines, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1908-1911, 1953
16
18
S. Wood Engine Company, Clyde, New York
Archival Resource Key
1914
16
19
Wood Taber and Morse, Eaton, New York
Archival Resource Key
1870, 1885, 1887
16
20