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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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Canning Chicken
May 1924
Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm.
Birdbath at Holden Farm
May 1924
View of a birdbath standing among trees at Holden Farm. In the background behind a wire fence, chickens are in an orchard.
Helen Holden Besemer Candling Eggs
May 1924
Helen Holden Besemer sitting in a wooden chair to candle eggs at Holden Poultry Farm.
Mr. Snyder Removing Chicken Droppings
May 1924
Mr. Snyder using a scraper to move poultry droppings from roosts into a box on a litter carrier at the Holden farm.
Clifford Anderson with Leghorn Chickens
1915
Clifford Anderson sits in a barnyard among his flock of white Leghorn chickens.
Poultry House
1915
Exterior view of a chicken coop, or poultry house made of wood and wire.
