Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 452

Photograph

Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover illustration for a McCormick line farm implement catalog showing a wheat field and farm on black background.
Poster

Champion Header Advertising Poster (Argentina)

Date: 1914
Description: South American advertising poster for Champion brand headers featuring color illustrations of the implements. Imprinted with "International Harvester Corpo...
Poster

Titan Oil Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Titan oil engines featuring a color illustration of a skid mounted tank cooled stationary engine. Also includes twelve photographs s...
Poster

International Harvester Movie Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster for a film produced by International Harvester in which "the tractor's constructive influence is symbolized in typical scenes - plowing,...
Photograph

Stahl Dog Team

Date: 1910
Description: Tom Stahl's dog team transporting two women in La Pointe on Madeline Island.
Photograph

Mogul 30-60 Tractor Pulling Elevating Grader

Date: 1915
Description: Mogul 30-60 kerosene tractor pulling an elevating grader in road construction project. The project was part of the "good roads movement" in Missouri.
Photograph

Sledding

Date: 1914
Description: Laurie, Muriel, and James Peterson, children of the photographer, sledding near the family home. Handwritten on reverse, "Laurie, Muriel, James Peterson, c...
Photograph

Tractor Running Belt-Driven Thresher

Date: 1914
Description: International Harvester tractor (likely a friction drive) running a belt-driven husker-shredder in the snow-covered yard of a farm.
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions, with an address for Budapest, Hungary. The poster was printed by the H...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions on the farm. Includes a large bird's-eye view of a farm, surrounded by ...
Poster

Champion Header Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: South American advertising poster for the Champion push binder (grain binder). The poster features color illustration and the text: "espigadora atadora, Ch...
Photograph

Children Toil in Community Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets.
Photograph

Tractor Pulling Four Osborne Binders

Date: 07 21 1912
Description: Men harvesting grain with four Osborne grain binders pulled by an Emerson Brantingham(?) tractor.
Photograph

Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
Photograph

Woman Operating Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine.
Photograph

Pupils Studying Corn

Date: 1913
Description: A group of children studying ears of corn outside small wooden shacks or corn cribs.
Photograph

Farm Shed

Date: 1918
Description: Interior of a farm shed showing a small gasoline engine, wash tub, feed grinder and other equipment powered by a system of pulleys and belts.
Photograph

Woman in Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Woman handling tomato plants in a vegetable garden.

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: