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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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Russell Gas Tractor
1921
Page in the Year Book of the Russell & Co. advertising the gas tractor. The text beneath the color illustration reads: "The Russell Gas Tractor Made in Four Sizes."
Russell and Company Agricultural Machinery Advertising Booklet
1921
Front cover of the Year Book of the Russell & Co. The text on the cover reads: "Yesterday and To-Day. Steam and Gas Tractors. Threshing Machinery Etc. 80th Year. 1842 to 1921. 'The Old Reliable Rus...
Van Duzen Traction Gasoline Engine
1895
Illustration of a Van Duzen traction gasoline engine.
Russell Road Roller
1920
Front cover of a booklet advertising the Russell Road Roller. The cover features an illustration of the machinery at work along a rural road and text that reads: "The Old Reliable Russell Roller is...
Russell & Co. Farm Equipment Catalog Cover
1881
Front cover of an advertising catalog for Russell & Company farm equipment. Includes illustrations of portable steam engines, steam traction engines and threshers framed by birds and wheat. Russell...
Tractors and Thresher Advertising Book
1919
Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by Russell & Co. featuring a color illustration of a man using a Russell tractor to work in a farm field. The text on the cover reads: "The Russell & ...
