B.F. Avery & Sons Plows and Agricultural Implements promotional card, 1883

Color cardstock promotional card printed for B.F. Avery & Sons, Plows and Agricultural Implements, Louisville, Kentucky. The inside of the card is an ad for the Avery Universal Plow, featuring a lithograth of Neptune plowing the Isthmus of Panama with an Avery Plow pulled by two horses. The back of the card depicts a horse falling in a field, with an attached plow and laborer in the air behind it. On the otherside of a fence, a horse is calmly pulling an Avery Plow while the laborer guiding the plow looks at the other person. Below the scene is the text "If you're trying to fly, you're all right

but if you want to plow, you'd better get an AVERY PLOW."

Mss. A W431a, Folder 13, Weiss, Allan and Anna. Collection on Kentucky businesses and institutions, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky

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Mss. A W431a Folder 13 Item 282