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Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Lauson Kerosene Tractor Advertisement
1919
Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson 21-jewel kerosene tractor. Features a photograph of a man using the tractor to plow a field. In the background is a red sun on the horizon, over whi...
Lauson 15-30 Tractor
1919
Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson 15-30 special road-building tractor. The cover features a partial color illustration of two men using a Lauson tractor and road grader to smooth a r...
Lauson 15-25 Tractor
1919
Advertisement for the Lauson 15-25 tractor featuring a color illustration of a farmer using the tractor and plow in a field, surrounded by an Art Deco-style decorative border.
Lauson Tractor Usages
1925
Inside pages of a pamphlet advertising the Lauson tractor, depicting six usages of the equipment on a farm: plowing, silo filling, discing, corn shelling, threshing, and road grading.
Lauson Factory
1920
Elevated-view illustration of the John Lauson Manufacturing Company factory. The company made Lauson tractors and Lauson Frost King gasoline engines.
Linn Tractor Pamphlet
1918
Front cover to a pamphlet advertising Linn Tractors, made in Morris, New York.