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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.
Buddy Tolan with Live Turkey
November 28, 1934
Buddy Tolan, 4, of 1726 Helena Street, dressed in snowsuit sitting on a box looking at a live turkey.
Mrs. Homer Stone Holding Turkey
November 16, 1932
Mrs. Homer Stone holding a 28 lb "Holland White" turkey.
Cooking Turkey
November 23, 1932
Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen.
Poultry Night at the Orpheum Theatre
November 17, 1932
Male and female turkeys awaiting their fate in cages in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. A poster advertises "Next Tuesday is Poultry Night Here! 8 turkeys, 12 ducks of the very finest stock from ...
Man with Pet Rats
July 25, 1934
John Harrison, 616 Williamson Street, with part of his brood of doomed white rats. City health department ordered their extermination.
Klinke Hatchery Incubators
February 28, 1935
Three drawers full of baby chicks as they emerge from one of the big incubating machines at the Klinke Hatchery, 1918 Winnebago Street.
