Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-14 of 14

Photograph

Poster Illustrating Old and New Harvesting Methods

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: Poster or display board illustrating the differences between "old" and "new" methods of harvesting grain. Includes images illustrating harvesting methods b...
Photograph

Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...
Photograph

Farming with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man using a McCormick grain binder pulled by horses to work in a field. In the background is a barn, windmill and several other farm buildings.
Photograph

Farming with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a McCormick grain binder pulled by horses to work in a field. In the background is a barn, windmill and several other farm buildings.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 10-20 Pulling P&0 Little Wonder

Date: 05 04 1928
Description: Three-quarter rear view of man pulling a P&O (Parlin and Orendorff) Little Wonder plow with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor. Decals are on the tractor an...
Book or Pamphlet

Parrett Tractor Pamphlet Back Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Back cover of a pamphlet advertising the Parrett tractor, featuring a photograph of a man using the tractor on a farm. The text reads: "The Parrett Tractor...
Photograph

Husker and Shredder in Farm Yard

Date: 1902
Description: Men with a wagon feeding corn stalks into a husker-shredder near a barn. Other farm implements are in the foreground behind a fence, and a windmill is in t...
Print

Hart-Parr Advertisement

Date: 1925
Description: Front cover of a Hart-Parr advertising booklet featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the Hart-Parr 30 tractor to work in a field on a farmstead,...
Photograph

Man Driving Farmall H Tractor with Disk Harrow

Date: 1941
Description: Rear view of a man, Harold Mills, driving a Farmall H tractor with a 9 foot McCormick-Deering disk harrow in a field. William Tobin farm. Farm buildings ar...
Photograph

Man on Tractor Pulling Disk Harrow

Date: 10 31 1917
Description: Left side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling a disk harrow in a field. In the background is a silo, barn, windmill and farmhouse.
Photograph

Tractor Belt-Driving Ensilage Cutter

Date: 12 29 1928
Description: A tractor in the foreground is belt-driving an ensilage cutter near a barn. Men are working on wagons to feed the cutter. There is a windmill behind the tr...
Photograph

Man Driving Farmall Tractor Pulling Rotary Hoes

Date: 08 25 1928
Description: Front view of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling rotary hoes in a field. Farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Threshing Outfit and Crew

Date: 09 15 1904
Description: Thirteen men take time from threshing duties to pose for a group portrait with a team of horses, threshing machine with straw elevator, and a steam tractor...
Photograph

Plowing

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump driving a team of four horses from the seat of what appears to be a single bottom sulky plow. He is in a large field on his family's farm...

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: