Title
The Keystone Line of Agricultural Implements.
Coverage
Sterling, IL:
Publisher
Keystone Manufacturing Co.,
Date
[ca. 1890].
Description
Like a rotating catalog, this chromolithographed trade card features a wheel with Uncle Sam demonstrating Keystone’s agricultural products. The potential buyers, e.g. Native Americans, sheiks, Turkish, Chinese, and Black people, are the most diverse I’ve ever seen in an advertisement. The advent of the internal combustion engine not only changed life for the middle class, it changed the way farming was done throughout the world.
Source
Collection of Ellen G. K. Rubin.