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| Date: | 08 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Sherwin Williams Company, 340 State Street, window display of PESTROY-DDT, new brush-on liquid coating for screens, porches, basements, sills, thresholds, ... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background. |
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| Description: | Two men spray trees for pests. One man is driving a tractor pulling a tank, while the other man follows behind holding a high pressure hose spraying the li... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Worker spraying Elm trees with DDT pumped from a tank hitched to the back of a vehicle equipped with a snow plow. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on top of what appears to be a sprayer, probably for use in orchards (though the urban setting suggests the possibility of other appli... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
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| Description: | View from front of a man on a motorcycle squirting fuel oil into a sewer opening at a curb to control mosquitoes. The motorcycle has an oil tank attached l... |
| Date: | 11 01 1958 |
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| Description: | All elm trees in Maple Bluff are sprayed for Dutch elm disease in accordance with the village's compulsory spraying ordinance. Charles Webster, 2740 Milwau... |
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