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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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Contour Farming
1950
Aerial view of a farm and surrounding fields farmed with the contour method. Shocks of grain dot several of the fields.
Aerial View of Contour Strip Farming
1958
Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background.
Patterns
1956
Aerial view of contour farming. Farms and patches of woods are spread out in the landscape.
Aerial View of Wisconsin Landscape
April 30, 1949
Aerial photograph of contour farming in Wisconsin.
Harvest
1952
A man driving a tractor, pulling a chopper filling a forage wagon, over gently rolling hills.
Contour of Land in Coulee Region
July 1964
Aerial view of fields along hills, surrounded by forests. There are roads and buildings, and hay bales in the field.
