Variant company name:

Founded in 1853 by Meinrad Rumely ; Incorporated 1887  Search this

Company Name:

M. Rumely Co.  Search this

Related companies:

Rumely Products Co., Inc. (Chicago, IL) ; Seager Engine Works (Lansing, MI) ; John M. Brant Co. (Bushnell, IL) ; Gundlach Mach'y Co. (Belleville, IL) ; Gaar-Scott & Co. ; A. Gaar & Co. ; Advance-Rumely Thresher Co ;  Search this

Notes content:

"OilPull" tractors ; power-farming machinery ; automatic balers ; rasp hullers ; Advance silage cutter ; "Power Farming" by Raymond Olney (1913) ; power feed mills ; "GasPull" tractors ; cream separators ; engine gang plow ; saw rigs ; automatic electric light plants for farming ; corn shellers ; Advance husker-shredder ; engines for plowing, hauling and grading ; "Rumely-Olds" engines ; "Gaar-Scott Tiger Line" ; "Gaar-Scott Tigerbilt" ; "Advance Line" straw-burner boilers, traction engines, and power separators ; threshing machinery ; "Northwest" ; nice unique color cover illustrations and black and white illustrations of early 1900's farm tractors, engines and boilers ; distributes "Falk" kerosene engines ; "Rumely-Adams" kerosene engines ; 1909-1912

Includes:

Trade catalog and histories

Black and white images

Color images

Physical description:

33 pieces; 1 box

Language:

English

Type of material:

Trade catalogs

Trade literature

Place:

La Porte, Indiana, United States

Date:

1900s

Topic (Romaine term):

Agricultural tools and machinery  Search this

Business services (advertising; marketing; organizational management; etc.)  Search this

Engines and motors: steam; oil; gas; etc.  Search this

Farm equipment and supplies (including dairy and poultry equipment)  Search this

Furnaces and boilers  Search this

Lighting (electric; gas; candle; oil; etc.)  Search this

Lumber; logging; timber and forestry  Search this

Mills and milling supplies  Search this

Topic:

Advertising  Search this

Agricultural implements  Search this

Agricultural machinery  Search this

Boilers  Search this

Business  Search this

Candles  Search this

Commerce  Search this

Dairying  Search this

Engines  Search this

Farm equipment  Search this

Forests and forestry  Search this

Furnaces  Search this

Lamps  Search this

Lighting  Search this

Lumber  Search this

Marketing  Search this

Milling machinery  Search this

Motors  Search this

Timber  Search this

Record ID:

SILNMAHTL_15568

Location:

Trade Literature at the American History Museum Library

Collection:

Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collections

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILNMAHTL_15568