Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 161-180 of 247

Print

Kardell Utility Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Kardell Utility tractor featuring a color illustration of the tractor along with illustrations of the equipment being used for cultiv...
Photograph

Loading Corn into Silo

Date: 
Description: The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, ...
Print

Peoria Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for the Peoria Tractor Company featuring the silhouettes of a barn and a farmer on a tractor against a setting sun and an i...
Photograph

Tobacco Weeding

Date: 06 1968
Description: Farmer weeding in a tobacco field.
Print

America's Greatest Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the 15-30 Parrett tractor featuring a side view color illustration of the tractor. In the background on the left is a man using a plow on...
Print

Parrett Motor Cultivator

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the Parrett motor cultivator, featuring an illustration of the machine at center flanked by illustrations of a farmstead, and a man using...
Photograph

Operating the Generator

Date: 03 1975
Description: "As a result of the storm some farms did not have electricity for five days. A generator was shared by many farmers and was moved from farm to farm so that...
Print

La Crosse Model G Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the 12-24 horsepower La Crosse Model G tractor. The advertisement features an illustration of a farmer using the tractor and a disc harro...
Print

Parrett Motor Cultivator

Date: 1915
Description: Advertisement for the Parrett motor cultivator, featuring an illustration of the machine at center flanked by illustrations of a farmstead, and a man using...
Photograph

Berg Farm

Date: 10 1987
Description: "Gordon Berg, left, Brownsville area farmer, posed with his hired helper at his state-of-the-art farm."
Book or Pamphlet

Two-Row Cultivator

Date: 1918
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Moline-Universal tractor two-row cultivator. Features a photograph of a farmer using the cultivator in a field...
Photograph

Southeast Construction Company

Date: 06 1988
Description: "Workmen from Southeast Construction Company are laying a 10-inch gas line that begins at Pine Bend, MN and will end at Granville, IL."
Print

Yuba Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement comparing the power of the Yuba Manufacturing Company's Yuba 12-20 tractor to a horse. Part of the caption reads: "A horse big enough to do t...
Print

"Tracover" Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement for the "Tracover", a tractor garage, in the "Yuba Bulletin". The illustration shows a farmer beside a Yuba tractor next to a "Tracover" buil...
Photograph

Round Silo

Date: 1895
Description: A twenty-five foot high round silo featured on the farm of F.D. Parish, 4.5 miles southeast of Waupaca. The silo is twenty feet in diameter. Two men are ge...
Print

Mechanical Farm Power

Date: 1930
Description: Advertisement for La Crosse agricultural equipment with a headline reading: "Farming Conditions Demand Mechanical Power." An illustration of the La Crosse ...
Print

Tractor Uses

Date: 1925
Description: Advertisement for the La Crosse kerosene tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in use on farm jobs. The headline reads: "The HAPPY FARMER Really Bur...
Book or Pamphlet

Cletrac Advertising Booklet

Date: 1921
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet entitled: "Selecting Your Tractor." The color illustration on the cover features a farmer using a Cletrac crawler tra...
Book or Pamphlet

Craig Tractor Pamphlet

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Craig tractors. The cover features an illustration of a farmer using a Craig tractor to complete field work with a tr...
Book or Pamphlet

Craig Tractor Catalog Cover

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement cover featuring a color illustration of a man using a Craig tractor. Barns, silos, and agricultural buildings are in the background. The text...

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: