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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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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.
Helen Holden Besemer Candling Eggs
May 1924
Helen Holden Besemer sitting in a wooden chair to candle eggs at Holden Poultry Farm.
Man Catching Chickens
1925
A man standing in front of a poultry house at Holden farm removing a chicken from a fish landing net after catching it. A number of chickens stand in the yard surrounding the poultry house.
Canning Chicken at Holden's Farm
1925
Two women working at P.G. Holden's Farm canning chicken. On the table there is canning equipment, chicken, and open cans.
Children Playing with Chicken
May 1924
Two children playing with a chicken on a lawn near some flowers. Original caption reads: "Holden Poultry Farm, Mr. Snyder's children playing with chicken."
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.
