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Digital Collections
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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The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Spraying Pesticide
June 1923
Two men applying pesticide with a sprayer in an orchard. Another man is sitting on the horse-drawn wagon carrying the tank.
Spraying Crops with Pesticide
1913
Two men are using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a field of corn.
Spraying Orchard with Pesticide
1925
Two men using a "Friend" sprayer to apply pesticide to orchard trees.
Two Men Sifting Compost for a Garden
June 1923
Two men sifting compost soil through a screen.
Barrel Spraying
1923
A man is using a barrel sprayer to apply pesticide to a fruit tree on Prof. Holden's farm.
Mixing Pesticide
April 1923
Two men mixing arsenate of lead before starting out for the orchard on R.R. Roberson's farm. A man on a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor and sprayer is looking on.
