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Farm-related museums also may have literature, like the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison. Cindy Knight, former F. Gerald Ham archivist for the McCormick-lnternational Harvester collection, says, "One interesting sidelight of this collection of red information at the museum is the information in the advertising literature about the toys that IH commissioned for premiums and to sell to their customers. We have some documentation and literature about the toys Harvester itself produced or distributed, and a collection of farm toys we have came to us when the papers were brought."
Additionally, the collection contains advertising literature for the equipment, catalogs, photographs, posters, booklets, brochures, leaflets and annual catalogs, Knight says.
Those items are available to anybody to study, or photograph, or make a replica of, Knight says. "That takes a bit of arranging, but it certainly can be done, and that's one of the purposes of a museum collection. It is available for study, even as it is available for exhibit."
Whenever I go into an implement dealer parts, I check out their literature rack to see if there's something new that I don't have."
Collector Quint Precht
"Farming has come full circle, and you can see it in the literature."
Collector Daryl Miller.
"I was like a lot of other farm kids. I sent in cards to get literature sent to me, and got some from implement dealers, who really liked to give it out in those days. Some of those pieces I looked at so much that I wore them out."
Collector Clarence Goodburn