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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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Accessing Collections
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 Crops with Pesticide
1913
Two men are using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a field of corn.
Man Spraying Field Crops
1919
Young man in a field spraying pesticide on crops for the Bowker Insecticide Company.
Spraying Potatoes with Pesticide
June 1923
Men using the "big sprayer" to apply pesticide to garden potatoes at R.R. Robertson's farm.
Farmers with Farmall Tractor and Potato Digger
1924
Rear view of two farmers pulling a potato digger in a field with a Farmall Regular tractor.
Spraying Orchard with Pesticide
1925
Two men using a "Friend" sprayer to apply pesticide to orchard trees.
Push Binder
1919
View across field towards a man operating a push binder powered by three horses.
