John Deere Plow
date: label: Date made
content: 1838
name: label: maker
content: John Deere
notes: label: Description
content: John Deere failed as a blacksmith in Vermont but succeeded as an agricultural tool manufacturer in Illinois. His company built revolutionary plows like this early 1838 example. The steel blades of Deere plows slid more easily through sticky prairie soil and made farmers more efficient. John and his son Charles expanded the company through clever marketing and financial acumen making Deere & Company the largest plow manufacturer in the world. The company continue to expand making everything from tractors to combines, from mechanical cotton harvesters to riding lawnmowers.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Illinois, Grand Detour
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: National Treasures exhibit
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content: Agriculture
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Deere and Company, 1938
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.38A04
label: catalog number
content: 38A04
label: catalog number
content: F001111
label: accession number
content: 148904
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plow
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (part: material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (part: material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 380 mm x 460 mm x 1230 mm; 14 15/16 in x 18 1/8 in x 48 7/16 in