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Joseph Breck & Sons was a seed and agricultural implements wholesaler and retailer in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1822. Its founder was Joseph Breck (1794 1873), a noted early horticulturist and botanist. His early fame stemmed from a book he wrote in 1833, The Young Florist, only the second book on flowers published in America. Breck published his company s first catalogue in 1840, the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store Catalogue, to promote his company s products. This is a reproduction of the April 1, 1880, Joseph Breck & Sons Illustrated Spring Catalogue and Retail Price List of Agricultural Implements and Machines. High quality illustrations and well written (often entertaining) descriptions make this a highly desirable reproduction. tems include: plows, harrows, planters, cultivators, hoes, mowers, rakes, horse hay forks, rollers, scrapers, wheel barrows, store trucks, churns, butter workers, potato diggers, post hole diggers, graters, grindstones, lawn mowers, cistern and well pumps, lawn fountains, garden engines, hydraulic rams, brass syringes, wringers, ice cream freezers, carriage jacks, copper weather vanes, and many other related items.
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This guide to the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, named for Winterthur's first curator, provides descriptive information for the primary research material held in the collection. The Downs Collection acquires materials from the mid seventeenth century through the twentieth century that document American lifestyles, concentrating on the domestic scene and activities within the household and art. It includes such items as diaries, business accounts of craftsmen whose products decorated dwelling houses, family papers, tax records, construction of homes, artists' sketchbooks, wills and household inventories, children's toys and games, and scrapbooks and journals. Items from individuals famous in American history rest alongside materials from people who led routine lives yet still contributed to the development of America. An extensive microform collection, including copies of material owned by other public repositories and private individuals, supplements the manuscript holdings. Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Invaluable listing of rare catalogs selling cars, beekeeper's equipment, clocks, firearms, livestock, clothes, toys, more. Cites catalog's location, size, more.
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
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