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Model VD 17 B-M Power Mower. The B-M Mower Company of Blue Mound, Kansas (Linn County), produced power mowers from the mid-1940s until 1957. The company promised customers that its aluminum-body mowers would save time, work, and money "and make mowing your lawn seem like child's play instead of hard labor."
Creator: B-M Mower Company
Date: between 1940 and 1957
Item Number: 209890
Call Number: 1997.85.1
KSHS Identifier: 1997.85.1
Agriculture - Implements and machinery - Mowing machines
Business and Industry - Manufacturing - Lawn mowers
Collections - Museum
Date - 1940s
Date - 1950s
Home and Family - Daily life - Yard work
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Materials - Agricultural - Mower - Lawn
Places - Cities and towns - Blue Mound
Places - Counties - Linn
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209890