Original early 20th-century Western Wheeled Scraper Company trade catalog from Aurora, Illinois, devoted to machinery for handling earth and stone.

The catalog covers a broad range of heavy construction, railroad, road-building, quarry, and excavation equipment. The company lists products including:

• Wheeled scrapers and drag scrapers
• Elevating graders
• Ditchers
• Wagon loaders
• Railroad and township plows
• All-steel reversible graders
• Rock and ore crushers
• Elevators and screens
• Dump cars
• Wagons
• Stone cars
• Dump carts
• Street sweepers
• Garbage carts

The opening company page prominently displays awards and exposition honors, including the Columbian Exposition of 1893, Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, and Lewis & Clark Exposition of 1905.

The index shows substantial coverage of dump cars, automatic dump cars, rail cars, spreader cars, road machinery, graders, plows, scrapers, crushers, and wagons, making this a particularly useful reference for collectors and researchers of early heavy equipment and civil engineering machinery.

The decorative front cover reads:

“Western Machinery for Handling Earth and Stone.”

A strong early industrial catalog with crossover appeal to collectors of road graders, railroad construction, dump cars, scrapers, quarry machinery, mining equipment, civil engineering, and Aurora, Illinois industrial history.