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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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The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Standard Insect Spray with DDT
Can of Standard Insect Spray with DDT. The package features the Standard Oil logo.
Acme 5% DDT Dust
Container of Acme 5% DDT Dust for vegetables, fruit, flowers and household.
Aerial Control of Mosquitoes
View of a crop duster spraying a pesticide to control Malaria mosquitoes over a pond. The caption under the image reads: "Aerial 'Gas' Attack Annihilates an Army of Malaria Mosquitoes near Decatur,...
Homemade Mosquito Duster
July 27, 1944
City of Madison staff demonstrating homemade liquid mosquito sprayer designed by Dr. Bernhard "Dommie" Domogalla, city biochemist. Left to right: LeRoy Johnson, Dick Selboe, Otto Haugaard, Jack Bun...
"Garden Pest"
Flies and mosquitoes, and fruits and vegetables with faces drawn on them, are looking with alarm at a man pushing what appears to be a grocery basket with food inside. A large mosquito with a long ...
Man Spraying for Mosquitoes
A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background.
