Exterior view of the brick building housing Hart-Parr Company located at 350 N. 8th Street in Lincoln. A wooden ramp leads to a platform running the front of the building. Signs painted over and on either side of the double-door read: "Hart-Parr Co., Gas tractors" "The modern farm horse, does plowing for 40 to 60cents per acre, eats nothing when idle" and "Gasoline, kerosene traction engines.
According to Polk's Lincoln City Directory, 1913, Reuben H Switzer was the manager of the Nebraska department of Hart-Parr Co., which manufactured oil-cooled gasoline and kerosene traction engines for general farm work.