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This beautiful ad appeared in the middle of The Engineer, published in London on 14 July 1876. John Fowler & Co. sold all manner of steam machinery for agricultural and mining purposes, as we can see in the little drawings that illustrate the ad–and particularly the mining scene, which shows the Fowler machinery above and below ground. The original ad is about 5″x7″–the little mine shaft at bottom is only a few millimeters.
