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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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Elgin Tractor
1918
Advertising mailer for the Elgin tractor, featuring an illustration of a man using a tractor and disc harrow to plant coins marked with a dollar sign.
GMC Samson Tractor
1918
Back cover of a booklet advertising the GMC Samson tractor with "sieve-grip." The photograph depicts two men using a Samson tractor and a plow in a field.
Farmer Using Fageol Tractor
1920
Advertising illustration for Fegeol tractors showing a farmer using a tractor in a field.
EB 12-20 Tractor
1920
Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Emerson-Brantingham Implement Company 12-20 tractor featuring a photograph of a farmer using the tractor in a field.
E-B Tractor
1920
Multiple views of the E-B 12-20 tractor in use in farm fields. The text reads: "An E-B Tractor is a Profitable Investment Because it is adaptable to all kinds of work. Ask your E-B Dealer for a Dem...
