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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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Accessing Collections
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.
Chicks and Eggs
Studio portrait of chicks on a cloth covered box, and eggs in front of them.
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.
Helen Holden Besemer Candling Eggs
May 1924
Helen Holden Besemer sitting in a wooden chair to candle eggs at Holden Poultry Farm.
Packing Eggs
June 1925
A woman wearing a dress is standing behind a table at the Holden Farm while packing eggs into cardboard holders. The holders are piled on a candling table to her right.
Woman with Poultry Housing Display
1915
A woman holding a chicken is standing beside a display illustrating quality poultry housing (chicken coops).
