Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 21

Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Poster

International War-Time Advertising Poster

Date: 1941
Description: Advertising poster celebrating the efforts of American farmers in wartime. Features a color illustration of a man in overalls with a Farmall tractor in the...
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

Steinecker Inspecting Peas at Prisoner of War Camp

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Capt. Huldreich M. Stienecker, Michigan, inspecting a load of peas at a cannery where German prisoners of war are working. Steinecker is in charge of the p...
Photograph

Helene George on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Mrs. Helene George driving a Farmall A tractor as part of a "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company. The cla...
Photograph

Hunter in Farmyard

Date: 
Description: A hunter, probably John Sprester, stands in farmyard with his gun, dog and catch of prairie chicken. In the background, a barn is visible.
Photograph

Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
Photograph

Wisconsin Heights

Date: 09 29 1906
Description: A group of people looks over the Wisconsin Heights battlefield as a man gestures. A horse-drawn buggy is on the right and another team of horses is visible...
Photograph

War Relief Services

Date: 06 15 1950
Description: World War II war relief services. Man washing milking equipment.
Photograph

IH Dealer Collecting Metal for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men from Anderson Motor Sales, an International Harvester dealership, collect a load of metal scrap form the farm of Frank Cook. The men are loading the me...
Photograph

Kasmiski Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: John Kasmiski lives at W1763 Zion Church Rd (Section 29). He has lived here for 3 years. Cows were last milked here in March 1972.
Photograph

North Vietnamese Collective

Date: 08 29 1967
Description: A group of people sit and stand outdoors with a group of baskets at a collective farm near Phat Diem, North Vietnam, visited by American journalist David S...
Print

Plowshares Are Swords

Date: 1940
Description: Flyer promoting International Harvester's war work, featuring a color illustration of a man dressed in overalls and his Farmall tractor. In the background ...
Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
Photograph

Homecoming, Quinney, Wisconsin

Date: 07 01 1917
Description: View of a large group of people gathered for a Homecoming celebration. A young woman in the foreground is identified as Daisy Helen Hicken.
Photograph

Gettysburg Farmhouse

Date: 07 1863
Description: Stereograph of the farmhouse of Abram Bryant, a free black man who lived near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. An African American man is standing near the porch ...
Photograph

McPherson Farm

Date: 07 15 1863
Description: Stereograph of the McPherson farm buildings near the site of the Gettysburg battlefield. Two figures appear on the right side: Mathew Brady standing and hi...
Photograph

Young Girl with '76 Flag Watching Truck Caravan

Date: 09 25 1975
Description: Seven-year-old LuRae Criscione watches the International Harvester United States Armed Forces Bicentennial Caravan. LuRae is dressed in red, white, and blu...
Photograph

Grand Army of the Republic Reunion

Date: 06 1895
Description: View across field towards a large group of people in the distance walking behind a band along on a town street. Identified as the reunion of the Grand Army...
Photograph

Sitting in Sailor Uniforms

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor portrait of Jennie Krueger Bruetzman, Edgar Krueger, and Ernst Bruetzman sitting cross-legged on the lawn dressed in sailor uniforms. Jennie and Er...

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: