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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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U.R. Fishel with Prize Poultry
1918
U.R. Fishel standing near a cage set up on wooden barrels. He is showing two of his prize-winning Plymouth Rock chickens.
Mr. Chaddick with Incubator
May 1923
Mr. Chaddick of the Fox River Poultry Farm, wearing coveralls and a cap, turning eggs in a Buckeye #8 incubator.
Man Feeding Chickens
1914
A man stands outside a chicken coop at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station while feeding a flock of chickens from a wooden pail.
Man Delousing a Chicken
May 1919
A man crouching near a pail of sodium fluoride to dip a chicken as part of a delousing procedure at the Purdue University farm.
Packing Eggs for Hatching
1914
Overhead view of six baskets, showing how eggs intended for hatching would be packed in layers of excelsior. A cloth would be sewed on top of the basket.
Helen Holden Besemer Candling Eggs
May 1924
Helen Holden Besemer sitting in a wooden chair to candle eggs at Holden Poultry Farm.
