The door to success. Osborne farm implements – Antique Print
![The door to success. Osborne farm implements, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ad/ad91ea76ee1d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The door to success. Osborne farm implements, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The door to success. Osborne farm implements
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The door to success" is an advertising lithograph for Osborne farm implements, printed in color by Gies & Co. of Buffalo, a firm known for commercial and trade prints. The caption card gives no date, but the print's style and purpose place it in the era when American manufacturers of reapers, mowers, and other horse-drawn machinery relied on eye-catching color images to reach farmers. The title's metaphor casts the implements as a doorway to prosperity, a common selling theme of the period. The record's subject tags also mark it as an industrial advertisement, which makes it useful for studying how machinery makers marketed to rural buyers.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, col. |
| Subjects | Color lithograph by Gies & Co., Buffalo. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; Industry--Machinery; BI; Advertisements--Machinery; Farm machinery; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 500 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147628 |
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