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The American Poultry Historical Society Artifacts include a marble rooster, an electronic egg, model poultry houses, an Utgaard Hatchery box, and poultry feed burlap sacks.

Content Description The Harlan Loy Shrader Collection contains materials collected by Shrader while he served as a senior extension poultry husbandman from 1926 to 1959. The materials include reports, articles, newsletters, clippings, photographs, booklets, correspondence, items from various poultry extension services, a metal model of everted baby chick vents, and other items. Some of the materials pertain to the American Poultry Historical Society. There are also materials related to the Chicken of Tomorrow...

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The Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contest Records consist of five bound volumes listing poultry judging team members and coaches, and the names of the institutions that sponsored the teams. Also included are pictures of the winning team members and coaches.

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The Poultry and Egg National Board Records include board meeting minutes, financial statements, annual reports, egg promotional material, new product research, cholesterol and fat studies, diet and nutritional cookbooks, reports of the American Home Economics Association conferences, and reports of the 1969 White House Conference on Nutrition.

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The Poultry Industry Hall of Fame Records contain nomination forms of American Poultry Historical Society members who were inducted into the Hall of Fame, artwork for Hall of Fame plaques, and correspondence regarding the preparation of plaques. See also the John Louis Skinner Collection, MS 153.

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The R. Ewing and R. LeNeil Poultry Anatomy Drawings consist of approximately 600 anatomical drawings of poultry used in various publications. There are 10 oversized boxes and an inventory of the collection is stored on CD-ROM.

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The Roland Clarence Hartman Papers include speeches, articles, publications, and advertising material related to poultry.

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The Rupert Coles Papers consist of Christmas cards created from Coles's original artwork.

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The Soren Husman Papers contain photographs of Husman and of the California Turkey Industry Federation (1925-1939), personal correspondence, and a newspaper clipping.

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The Walter W. Sadler Papers consist of reprints of 55 of Sadler's published papers. Sadler wrote a variety of journal articles and essays on topics such as hatchability of poultry eggs, pasteurization of milk, care of bats, salmonella in turkeys, avian diseases, animal-borne infections, and food-borne diseases of animal origin, among other subjects.