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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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Sweep Horsepower Threshing
1890
Sweep horsepower threshing. Men and products lined up near the machinery with a large haystack on the left.
Threshing on Peter Pflaum Farm
Farm workers spreading hay onto two haystacks on farm on the east side of Highway 51 north of Pflaum Road. Three teams of horses, wearing fly-nets, are providing horse sweep power. Two or three fin...
Threshing Time on the Old Farm
1910
Hand-colored postcard showing a farm crew with horses, a tractor, and other agricultural implements threshing grain crops in a field. Women in dresses pose with the men in the field.
Frank Otto Threshing Crew
A group of farmer workers stand with pitch forks in front of the first gas engine for threshing on the August Krenke farm. A horse-drawn vehicle is also visible in the background.
Adapted Haying Operation with Sweep Rakes
July 6, 1905
Men working in a field with horses and sweep rakes.
