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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.
Children with Pet Cockerel
1914
Two children posing with their pet cockerel. The boy is holding up a piece of dried corn on the cob.
Boy with Prize-Winning Rooster
1920
A boy wearing a straw hat, cuffed overalls, and sneakers sits on a wooden crate while holding a prize-winning rooster. A ribbon rests on the boy's leg reading: "Harvey Community Fair Under Auspices...
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.
Children with Prize-Winning Chicks
May 1925
Two children of Vernon Shurs sit and stand near four poultry houses and multiple prize-winning Rhode Island Red chicks. The girl, squatting and wearing a dress, holds her hand out to feed the chick...
Man Feeding Chickens
June 1927
A man wearing a straw hat feeding chickens out of a metal bucket in front of a poultry house at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
School Children at Corn Testing Lesson
1913
Group of school children gathered outdoors with a teacher examining corn kernels after germination.
