WAUMightyManPHColl641.xml Guide to the Mighty Man Garden Tractor Photograph and Advertisement Collection 1947-1955 Mighty Man Garden Tractor Photograph and Advertisement Collection Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2004 (Last modified: 4/17/2018)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections PH0641 Mighty Man Garden Tractor Photograph and Advertisement Collection 1947-1955 45 photographic prints 15 items : advertisements and clippings Collection materials are in English. Photographs and advertisements for various Mighty Man Garden Tractor models and implements, from Tacoma, Washington, 1947-1955.

The Farm Equipment Division of Marine Iron Works, Inc. of Tacoma, Washington, manufactured Mighty Man Garden Tractors in the 1940s and 1950s. The small, two-wheeled tractors had two- and three-horsepower engines and handle bars for pushing, and could be fitted with various models of front- and back-end attachments such as snowplows, disc tillers, cultivators, mowers, and seats for riding.

The collection consists of three albums (now disassembled) containing black-and-white promotional photographs of small tractors and tractor implements, as well as other equipment and machinery manufactured by Marine Iron Works. Many photographs are studio shots, several of which have been colored. A few images show the tractors in use. Albums also include advertisements in the form of newspaper clippings and flyers, and instructions and packing slips for the tractors.

Collection is open to the public.

Request at UW

Source: Fairlook Antiques, Seattle, 2003.

Processed by Sarah Nelson.

Collection was formerly identified by UW Special Collections Photo Accession Number 2003-019.

The three albums were disassembled. Photographs and other material have been placed in folders, and their original order has been maintained.

 Webster & Stevens Turner Richards Studio Lee Merrill Photographers John Bickel Photographic Marine Iron Works (Tacoma, Wash.) Garden tractors--Photographs Tractors--Equipment and supplies--Photographs Snowplows--Photographs Rotary tillers--Photographs Advertisements Photographic prints Clippings Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington) Washington (State) Photographs Agriculture Business, Industry, and Labor Tacoma Technology

 

Album 1 1949-1955 1 1 Push tractor with front-attached, 7-bit cultivator implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 1 2 Push tractor with rear-attachment, multi-blade implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 1 3 Push tractor with rear-end seat and disc tiller implement being demonstrated in field

Caption reads: "Riding Sulky. Pneumatic Tires. Adjustable wheel spacing."

 1 4 Push tractor with front-attached plow implement 1 5 Man demonstrating push tractor with front-attached snowplow implement 1 6 Push tractor with front-attached plow implement sitting in mechanical shop 2 7 Multi-blade attachment for tractor 2 8 Man demonstrating push tractor with rotary snowplow implement spraying snow 2 9 Push tractor with 6-blade, rear-attached cultivator implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 2 10 Push tractor with rear-attached plow implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 2 11 Push tractor with 8-blade disc implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 2 12 Push tractor with front snowplow and sprayer implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 3 13 Eight-blade disc implement for tractor Lee Merrill Photographers, Tacoma 3 14 Hilling tool plow implement for tractor John Bickel Photographic Illustration, Tacoma 3 15 Equipment of unknown purpose 3 16 Pamphlet with product explanation and illustrations with captions 3 17 Machinery in mechanical shop 3 18 Helicopter rescue basket 1955

Caption reads: "Helicopter Basket (rescue) presently being manufactured by Marine Iron Works for the Air Rescue Service."

 3 19 Metal equipment of unknown use 3 20-21 Machinery in manufacturing shop Album 2 1949-1950 4 22 Tractor with rear-attached plow implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma

Color-enhanced b&w photo.

 4 23 Mighty Man Tractor 4 24 Hilling tool plow implement 4 25 Disc implement with 8 12-inch discs, attached to rear of tractor 4 26 Rear-attached cultivator implement on tractor 4 27 Mighty Man Tractor 4 28 Tractor with front-attached sickle bar mower 4 29 Plow implement for tractor 4 30 Tractor with front-attached snowplow and sprayer 5 31 Metal wheel implement Lee Merrill Photographers, Tacoma 5 32 Rear view of tractor and attached single plow implement 5 33 Man driving Mighty Man Tractor using seat implement ("riding sulky") and towing trailer full of gourds down country road ca. 1949 Lee Merrill Photographers, Tacoma 5 34 Man guiding Mighty Man Tractor as it tows a commercial truck 5 35 Two Mighty Man Tractors in display window of Ernst Hardware Company Webster and Stevens Commercial Photographers, Seattle 5 36 Close-up of Mighty Man Junior Tractor engine and structure John Bickel Photographic Illustration, Tacoma 5 37 Tractor with front-attached sickle bar mower John Bickel Photographic Illustration, Tacoma 5 38 Mighty Man Junior Tractor John Bickel Photographic Illustration, Tacoma 5 39 Tractor with snowplow and rotary sprayer implement Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 5 40 Tractor with "riding sulky" seat and 2-disc hoe implement attached Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 5 41 Rear view of tractor and single plow implement Album 3 1947-1950 6 42 Clipping of headlines from Tacoma News Tribune with photo of Jack Roberts, Public Works Commissioner, pushing Mighty Man Tractor with snowplow 1949 6 43 Tractor with seat "riding sulky" and rear-attached single plow implement 6 44 Tractor with front-attached sickle bar mower John Bickel Photographic Illustration, Tacoma 6 45 Tractor with snowplow and rotary sprayer Turner Richards Studio, Tacoma 6 46 Ernst Hardware advertisement clipping from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 6 47 Flyer for Mighty Man Tractor Models 5 and 7 with photos and captions 6 48 Flier for Mighty Man Rotary Tiller 6 49 Price list for the Mighty Man line of tractors and implements 1950 6 50 Knox Seed Co. advertisement clipping from the Modesto Bee for Mighty Man Junior 1950 7 51 Advertisement for Mighty Man Tractors in Farm Implement News 1949 7 52 Assembly instructions for Model 5 tractor 7 53 Advertisement for Mighty Man Junior in Farm Implement News 1949 7 54 Tacoma Seed Co. advertisement for Mighty Man Junior 7 55 Tri-fold pamphlet for Mighty Man All-Purpose Tractors 1947 7 56 Advertisement for Mighty Man Tractors in Implement & Tractor 1949 7 57 Three-part fold-out advertisement for Mighty Man authorized dealer 7 58 Ernst Hardware advertisement for Mighty Man Junior 1950 7 59 Poster advertisement for Mighty Man Junior Cultivator