History Of Rock County And Transactions Of The Rock County Agricultural Society And Mechanics' Institute
Guernsey, Orrin and Josiah Willard
Rock County Agr. Soc. 1856. 1st. 350 pgs. Six plates including Institute for the Blind at Janesville; Janesville Iron Works; Whitaker's Woolen Factory; J.P. Wheeler, First president of the Institute; Palmer and Williams' Patent Self-Raking Reaper and Mower; Beloit Reaping and Mowing Machine. Everything on the history, including the Black Hawk War, geography, resources, trade, agriculture, and institutions of this Wisconsin town. Howes G454 collates only five plates; American Imprints Inventory does not provide a collation; Sabin #29117 records three plates and a portrait.