The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

This page from the 1896 catalog has more smiles than any other illustration I have seen! It is absolutely fascinating to  look at this rom...

Today's post is a quick visual sampler of images from the late 1800s. Buckbee seemed to enjoy illustrations showing his wor...

Let's start poking around in a new company that made an major impact around the turn of the 20th century.  Rockford, Illinois is...

Most seed companies bought stock seed packets from printers and had their name printed over the stock image. Rice's, on the other h...

This daguerrotype came to light after I posted this morning!  It was taken in Cambridge N.Y. somewhere between 1840 and 1860 according...

This illustration of the rich land of Washington County, New York goes a long way towards explaining why seedsmen, like the Rice family, w...

D oesn't it look like Jerome Rice's cabbage hugging fellow changed his shoes and hat and took on a moonlighting job for Johnso...