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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Contour Farming
1950
Aerial view of a farm and surrounding fields farmed with the contour method. Shocks of grain dot several of the fields.
Patterns
1956
Aerial view of contour farming. Farms and patches of woods are spread out in the landscape.
Contour Farming
1950
Aerial view of contour farming surrounding multiple farms and woods.
Terraced Farm Land
1948
Aerial view of terraced farm land with shocks of harvested corn. A farm is in the valley and trees cover much of the hills.
Terraced Drainage
1936
A level pasture terrace showing water in the channel. These terraces, largely experimental, are built on the level, drainage being provided for by means of an iron pipe, the arrangement somewhat re...
Contour of Land in Coulee Region
July 1964
Aerial view of fields along hills, surrounded by forests. There are roads and buildings, and hay bales in the field.
