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NEW HOLLAND BAND Collection transfered to the nhahs Museum
The New Holland Band Museum's home since 1997 was on the 2nd floor of the ELANCO Library on the northern edge of Garden Spot Village. The Museum had frequent visitors and regular visiting hours were established. More instruments and band memorabilia were donated, and exhibit and storage space were at a premium. After Art Futer’s death in 1998 it became increasingly difficult to maintain the museum and keep up with the band’s busy rehearsal and performance schedule. After several years of sincere effort followed by much thought and discussion, the band trustees decided to consider divesting itself of the museum.
The trustees were very familiar with the New Holland Area Historical Society and in 2024 began discussing with them the idea of giving them the museum holdings. In June 2024 the New Holland Band and the New Holland Area Historical Society entered into a formal agreement. The band would transfer the contents of the Band Museum to the Historical Society and make a very generous donation made possible by a friend of the New Holland Band. This gift would establish an endowment fund that would support the collection in perpetuity.
new holland machine company
A vintage ½ Horsepower New Holland Hit and Miss Engine. This engine quickly became the desired choice of the agricultural community due to the innovative tapered water reservoir which avoided freeze damage in the winter months.
For more information regarding the New Holland Hit and Miss Engine click on the photo to the right and a separate page will open for a website devoted to this invention.
A vintage New Holland feed grinder. This “cob-chopper”, powered by a hit or miss engine, would grind dried cob-corn for animal feed.
A rare early photo of the first prototype New Holland baler built from repurposed parts by Edwin Nolt. In 1940 after refinements and limited production, New Holland Machine Company would buy Mr. Nolt’s invention and soon put our town on “the world map”.
After less than a decade of production this print ad proclaims the New Holland Baler “tops them all”!
A photo of Abram Zimmerman, founder of the quickly successful New Holland Machine Company in 1895. In just less than 20 years, Zimmerman would sell his stock and leave New Holland to become a “Russelite” and begin preparing for the Lord’s reappearance.