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| Text on Button | The American Thresherman "THE WARMEST BABY IN THE BUNCH" B.B. CLARKE, EDITOR. "Uncle Silas" MADISON, WIS. |
| Image Description | The button is divided into three ringed segments: the outer ring has red and white stripes, white stars on blue, and gold bands that recall the US flag; the middle ring has blue and red text on an off-white background; the center ring features a sepia-toned photograph of a white man with short dark hair and a prominent mustache. |
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BASTIAN BROTHERS MANUFACTURERS OF RIBBON AND METAL BADGES - [union bug] - BUTTONS - SEND FOR A CATALOGUE GET A COLLECTION OF BUTTONS - ROCHESTER, NEW YORK |
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| Additional Information | The American Thresherman was a farming magazine which began, with its first issue, in 1898. Also known as "The Power Farmer's Magazine,” The American Thresherman focused on farm equipment and other farm-related technologies and topics. Its editor and publisher Bascom B. Clarke was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1851 and in 1890 moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he founded the magazine. |
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Galactic Central. (n.d.). Magazine data. http://www.philsp.com/data/data026.html Wisconsin Historical Society. (n.d.). Clarke, Bascom B., 1851 - 1929. https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS6466 |
| Catalog ID | AD1103 |