Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-12 of 12

Photograph

Mason Rorbett Farm

Date: 1941
Description: Slightly elevated view of Mason Rorbett using a McCormick-Deering Farmall A tractor with a 92 slab moldboard plow to build a terrace on his farm. In the ba...
Photograph

Lindsey Reese in Abandoned Field

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Lindsey Reese, dressed in a hat and suit jacket, standing in an abandoned field. Several farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 02 09 1915
Description: A man sits on a bale of cotton piled on top of wooden boards in a field. Two men stand near him and another man or young boy sits on a bale in the backgrou...
Photograph

Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
Photograph

Corn Harvest at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 1924
Description: Men on an International Harvester demonstration farm are feeding corn into a husker-shredder as a boy is holding a burlap bag to the machine to catch the k...
Photograph

Logging with Oxen

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: A team of ten oxen pulling a load of cut logs on a wagon along a dirt road. A man is standing on the road behind the team of oxen, and in the background ar...
Photograph

Hammer Mill Demonstration

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of men and women gathered to watch a hammer mill demonstration at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. There is a Farmall t...
Photograph

Man Smoothing Dirt Road

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat is standing on a wooden grader while driving two mules along a dirt road. Beside the road behind him are cows in a fenced-in f...
Photograph

Peach Tree Orchard

Date: 05 12 1902
Description: Elevated view of Alexander Krueger standing in a 20 acre fruit tree orchard owned by Paul C. Goetsch. Alexander is standing next to one of the trees and t...
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with No. 5 Peg-Tooth Harrow

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter view from left front of a Farmall H tractor with No. 5 peg-tooth harrow preparing ground for oats on the farm of Ed Gentt. Farm buildings are...
Photograph

Two Men with Farmall A Tractor and Cotton Picker

Date: 1947
Description: View from front of man driving a Farmall A tractor pulling a wagon. Beside the wagon on the left is a man driving a cotton picker. The cotton picker basket...
Photograph

Dunson Prize Horses

Date: 02 16 1915
Description: Walker Lee Dunson, his Prize horses and his home near Alexander City, Alabama. Walker is 15-years-old and goes to school, yet he holds the world's record a...

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: