Showing posts with label 1876. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1876. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2018

1876 - Giant Potato at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition

Will you look at that monster tuber on the barrel!!



Bliss, B.K. & Sons, Seedsmen, 34 Barclay Street, New York, N.Y., Exhibit #36;


Centennial Photographic Co.. P.K. [sic] Bliss & Son's exhibit. [Albumen Prints]. Retrieved from https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/1581

Saturday, November 5, 2016

1876 - American Agriculturist Ads

I was cruising this publication for bee information when three pages of seedsmen ads caught my attention.  The quality of scan was better than usual so I thought I'd share them.  I did crop the right hand column off pages so they would fit, and pasted those columns together.  The heavy hitters of the day are represented!