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Patent
Object/Artifact
One US Patent issued to James F Gordon for a Grain Harvesting and Binding Machine, May 1886.
2024.14.004
The museum has in its collection a salesman's model of the grain harvesting and binding machine, a medal awarded to James F Gordon for the machine, and a photograph of the six Gordon brothers. All these items were donated by a descendant of James Gordon.
Genesee Country Village and Museum
1886
Washington
District of Columbia
United States of America
North America
James Fraser Gordon
2024.14.001, 2024.14.002, 2024.14.003