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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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Man Harvesting Cotton with Mechanical Picker
1932
African American man harvesting cotton with an experimental McCormick-Deering 2-row cotton picker mounted on a Farmall Regular tractor.
Mechanical Cotton Picker
1942
African American field worker testing an experimental International Harvester cotton picker. Original caption reads: "A close-up front view of the Harvester cotton picker showing how the row of cot...
Man Operating International Harvester Cotton Picker
1942
African American man dumping a load of cotton from an experimental International Harvester cotton picker into a wagon.
Men Weighing Cotton Bales
1905
Group of men and young boys are gathered outdoors while weighing bales of cotton on a large hanging scale manufactured by Smith.
