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From AI:
Peter Devine was a Chicago-based boiler maker — specifically, a 60-horsepower tubular boiler used at Cochran's Electric Light Company in Edgewater, Illinois, was made by Peter Devine of Chicago.
Frank Dan(iel) Blish in connection with the Chicago boiler industry:
An advertisement in The American Florist, a trade journal, lists Frank Dan Blish as the attorney ("Att'y") for a boiler operation based in Chicago, with an office at 189 State Street and works located at 56th & Wallace Streets, Chicago. The listing advertised boiler capacity from 350 to 10,000 feet of four-inch pipe.
This strongly suggests Frank Dan(iel) Blish served as the legal representative or attorney for a Chicago boiler company — likely the Peter Devine Boiler Company or a related operation — rather than a laborer or tradesman. The 56th & Wallace Streets location places the works on Chicago's South Side, consistent with the industrial character of that area in the late 19th/early 20th century.
1. The 1943 WWII Advertisement
An August 23, 1943 Allis-Chalmers advertisement featured a little girl eating a slice of bread alongside an image of a Japanese battleship being struck, with the tagline "Bread for you and Bombs for Tojo!" — a wartime ad tying farm equipment production to the war effort.
2. The "Allis Girl" — a Known Collectible Image
There is a well-known image simply called the "Allis Girl" that has become a popular piece of Allis-Chalmers memorabilia, reproduced as posters and prints.
3. The 1960s Magazine Campaign
A celebrated series of high-quality advertising illustrations was the centerpiece of a magazine campaign produced for Allis-Chalmers farm equipment in the mid-1960s, created by the Campbell Mithun advertising agency of Minneapolis. The original gouache paintings were unsigned, and were rescued from an incinerator by an Allis-Chalmers advertising agent named Bob Hobson.
