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Title	Farming Poster
Subject	Transportation Business and Labor Agriculture Bearings industry Farmers Advertisements
Place	Canton (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio)
Description	The Timken Company produced a series of posters in the 1940s and 1950s advertising the many uses and functions of their roller bearings. The poster shows a farmer exclaiming "I plowed nearly two acres today! Get a big supper ready! I'll cool off the team and water them and then we'll eat before we do the milking." The poster features the message "40 Years Ago Today the farmer does many times the work with half the effort." It explains that "Timken Bearings have played an important part in the development of tractors and modern farm equipment." The reverse features the slogan "No regrets when you install genuine Timken Bearings." The poster measures 9" by 11" (22.86 by 27.9 cm). The Timken Company began as the Timken Carriage Company in 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri. The company developed a new kind of roller bearing that they first used on their buggies and wagons. Making roller bearings for other manufacturers became the company's focus. Henry Timken patented a tapered roller bearing in 1898 and started a company to produce it in 1899. Henry's sons, Henry H. (H.H.) and William R. (W.R.) Timken, took over the business soon after. As their business grew, they realized their distance from the steel market was resulting in high freight costs and shipping delays. They chose Canton as their new location and in 1901 they broke ground for a new building. The Timken Company became an internation leader in the production of roller bearings, alloy and specialty steels, and related products. Their bearings have been used in all types of vehicles from trains to cars to space shuttles. Timken produced more than 6 billion bearings between 1899 and 2003.
Creator	Timken Company
Date of Original	1940 - 1950 circa
Collection	Timken Company Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	McKinley Museum and National Memorial
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2340_2557720_016
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2340_2557720_016.tif
Image Height	4394
Image Width	3400
File Size	3848.12 KB

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