Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-6 of 6

Photograph

Picking Cotton

Date: 
Description: Agricultural workers harvesting cotton, location unknown. Some of the workers are using horse-drawn plows. Two small buildings are in the distance. Caption...
Photograph

Cranberry Processing

Date: 1983
Description: Harvested cranberries being unloaded from a truck for cleaning and processing. A woman stands over the cranberries with a rake while adjusting the flow of ...
Photograph

Man and Woman in Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Ceylon Carrie records: "Both men and women wear a sort of skirt made of a straight piece of cloth wound around the body." Here, a man i...
Photograph

Julian Corbisier Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Three women, identified as Louisa, Esther, and Engeline, standing in a field (possibly soybean) on the Julian Corbisier farm. Men in the background are thr...
Photograph

The Girl on the Land Serves the Nation's Need

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring four women in brown coats, pants, and hats walking along a field. One of the women is leading a team of two horses, two of the...
Poster

Women of Maine Are You Helping? Heroic Women of France. We Must Win The War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of three women, in a field, leaning over and pulling an agricultural implement in a field. Text above photograph reads: "Hero...

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: