![[Advertising Illustration]](../pics/shovel.gif)
The is the "American Shovel" and the manufacturer is quite proud of it. This was part of an advertising cover for a hardware store, about 1900.
Go back to the Swanson homepage.
**** If you can read this text, your browser is not supporting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You may be running a text-only browser, or perhaps an older browser version. It is also possible that you are have disabled Javascript (Netscape). If you wish to see this page with all formatting in place, upgrade your browser, and/or enable Javascript. Sorry for the inconvenience. ****
![load the picture separately [10k GIF]](../pics/../pics/shovel.gif){kind=link}