Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 101-120 of 492

Photograph

Making Grasshopper Bait

Date: 1938
Description: At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr...
Photograph

Cranberry Cleaning Machine

Date: 09 1934
Description: Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine.
Photograph

German Prisoners of War Marching to Trucks

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
Photograph

German Prisoner of War with Pea Vines

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery.
Photograph

Sisal Leaves

Date: 01 22 1910
Description: Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Sugar Beets

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Plenty Potatoes

Date: 1912
Description: Two men, one wearing overalls and one wearing suspenders, stand on top of a mound of giant potatoes. A large cart drawn by two horses carries the potatoes ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Green Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th...
Photograph

Man Tending Corn Plants

Date: 10 1946
Description: Man in cornfield, tending a plant.
Photograph

Man in Field

Date: 10 1946
Description: Man (Mr. Goodyear?) holding a muskmelon in an agricultural field.
Photograph

15-30 Tractor and Hay Press

Date: 1912
Description: Workers on and near a large pile of hay use an International Harvester Mogul(?) 15-30 tractor and hay press in a field.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
Photograph

Man Shucks Corn in Field

Date: 1921
Description: A man is sitting and shucking a pile of corn in the middle of a harvested cornfield. In the background is a wagon full of corn.
Photograph

Man Operating a Manure Spreader

Date: 1912
Description: A young man driving a two-horse manure spreader in a snowy field.
Photograph

20 H.P. Type B Tractor Used on the Curtis Farm

Date: 1912
Description: An International 20 H.P. Type B Tractor owned by J.S. Curtis, but operated by G.W. Crosby. According to the original caption, Crosby operated the outfit wi...
Photograph

Harvest by Hand

Date: 1921
Description: Men cutting and gathering grain by hand. One man appears to be holding a scythe, or possibly a cradle.
Photograph

Migrant Cherry Pickers

Date: 1963
Description: Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,...
Photograph

Cotton Duster

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: A man spraying a cotton crop with a Farmall Regular tractor and a McCormick-Deering cotton duster owned by J.R. Clark of Dallas, Texas.
Photograph

Harry M. Cosway

Date: 1942
Description: Elevated view of Harry M. Cosway, tractor operator for Porter & Bonney, driving a tractor through a crop of potatoes.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: