Agricultural Technology Manuals Collection 1893-2000

San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum

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History The Agricultural Technology Manuals Collection was compiled by the San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum. The majority of the manuals have been donated by private collectors and by museum volunteers. Museum staff members have also purchased manuals to include in the collection. Until 2011, the manuals in this collection were stored with catalogs, brochures, and other promotional materials published by agricultural machinery...

Sears, Roebuck and Company

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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, and reincorporated by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first location was in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, the...

William Deering & Company

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Willys-Overland Motors, Inc.

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In 1908 John North Willys bought the Overland Automotive Division of Standard Wheel Company. In 1912 renamed Willys-Overland Motor Company. From 1912 to 1918 Willys was the second largest producer of automobiles in the United States behind only Ford Motor Company. The Overland Four model was one of the first "compact" cars. Considered a failure. From the description of Records, 1918, 1970. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 53964660 ...

Be-Ge Manufacturing Company

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Vaughan Motor Works

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Ferguson-Sherman Manufacturing Corporation

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Harry Ferguson, Inc.

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Continental Motors Corporation

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Chrysler corporation

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On Jan. 4, 1980, the Chrysler Corp. permanently closed its Hamtramck Assembly Plant, commonly called "Dodge Main", marking the end of nearly 70 years of continuous manufacturing operations at the facility. John Frances and Horace Elgin Dodge were pioneers in the automobile industry, beginning with a machine shop to supply auto plants with parts, working with both Ransom E. Olds and Henry Ford, and eventually building a new plant on a 30 acre site in Hamtramck in 1910. Wanting to build their own ...

Eisemann Magneto Corporation

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Killefer Manufacturing Corporation

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The Thomson-Diggs Company

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J.I. Case Company

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Implement and Tractor Publications, Inc.

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Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company

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Preco Incorporated

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Oliver Farm Equipment Company

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Gibson Manufacturing Corporation.

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Massey Ferguson

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The collection contains information produced by the Massey Ferguson farm equipment company. The bulk of the material consists of product information publications produced by the company to promote its wide array of farm implements, tractors, combines, and industrial machinery. These materials consist mainly of product information bulletins, owner's/operator's manuals, parts books, and photographs of tractors, combines, and other products. -- The collection also contains an assortment of other do...

C. L. Best Tractor Company

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Superior Manufacturing Company, Inc.

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Towner Manufacturing Company

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American Bosch Magneto Corporation

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Deere & Company

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Universal Harvester Company

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Hyster Company

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Buda Company

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Fairbanks, Morse and Company

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Kohler Company

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American Bosch Corporation.

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Owatonna Manufacturing Company

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Schramm, Inc.

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Implement and Tractor Publication, Inc.

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Wisconsin Motor Manufacturing Company

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LeRoi Company

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Samson Sieve-Grip Tractor Company

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Waukesha Motor Company.

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Chain Belt Company

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Gustafson Manufacturing Company

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Advance-Rumely Thresher Company

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Cleveland Tractor Company

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Wisconsin Motor Corporation

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Harris Harvester Company

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Harris Manufacturing Company.

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William Pond Harris (1846-1915), a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, came to Johnson City, Tenn., in 1890 to serve as construction superintendent in the building of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad (The 3 C). When the Panic of 1893 ended the construction project, Harris worked for a few years as division superintendent for the Plant rail system before returning to Johnson City. In 1898, he established the Harris Manufacturing Company. Initially, the comp...

Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Company

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North East Electric Company

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International Harvester Corporation

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Denman & Company

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Yuba Manufacturing Company

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Cummins Engine Company

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Gravely Motor Plow and Cultivator Company.

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Samson Tractor Company

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Oliver Corporation

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Sperry Rand Corporation. New Holland Division

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Massey-Ferguson, Inc.

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R. Herschel Manufacturing Company

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Blackwelder Manufacturing Company.

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Manufacturing firm located in Rio Vista, California since 1902 whose work focused on the development of tomato harvesters and other agricultural equipment. From the description of Archives, 1902-1989. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 32172888 ...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...

King Machine & Manufacturing Company

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Holt Manufacturing Company

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C. L. Best Gas Traction Company.

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J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company

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Western Harvester Company

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Power Production Company

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International Harvester company

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R. G. LeTourneau, Inc.

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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company.

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Industrial Scientific Company

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Minneapolis-Moline Company

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The Minneapolis-Moline Company (MMC) was a large tractor and machinery producer based in Minnesota. It was the product of a merger among three companies in 1929: Minneapolis Steel & Machinery (MSM), the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company (MTMC), and the Moline Plow Company (MPC). Headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota, production sites included Minneapolis's Lake Street and Como Avenue plants and Moline, Illinois. From the guide to the Minneapolis-Moline Company records., 1836-19...

Graham-Paige Motors Corporation

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Tractomotive Corporation

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David Brown Tractors Ltd.

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David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield) Ltd was founded in 1860, originally producing wooden gear patterns for the textile industry. In 1936 a subsidiary of the family business in collaboration with Harry Ferguson manufactured the Ferguson-Brown Tractor, to Ferguson's design in the David Brown Gear Factory. This was notable as the world's first production tractor to be equipped with hydraulic lift and 3 point linkage. In the late 1930's this association lapsed, Ferguson join...

Caterpillar Tractor Company

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The Caterpillar Tractor Company was formed in 1925 by the merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California, and Peoria, Illinois, and the C.L. Best Tractor Company of San Leandro, California. In the years before World War I, Benjamin Holt invented the "caterpillar tractor," which moved on heavy, belted-metal tracks rather than wheels. The tracks prevented the vehicle from sinking in the mud. The Caterpillar Tractor Company mounted extensive marketing campaigns during the late 192...

Interstate Training Service

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General motors corporation

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Schmeiser Manufacturing Company

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Wico Electric Company.

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Delco-Light Company

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Dayton, OH. From the description of The better way to keep food, ca.1930. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122489550 ...