chicken breeds

The Clinton C. Hollenback Papers include personal correspondence and ledger accounts of purchases and sales of hatching eggs, baby chicks, and farm equipment. There are brochures, invoices, receipts, and price lists, along with detailed egg-production and incubation records of individual pedigree chickens, and numerous American Poultry Association prize ribbons awarded to Hollenback's entries in the 1919 Mukwonago, Wisconsin, Poultry Show.

The Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms Records contain pedigrees of individual records attained by chickens in breeding pens from 1926 and 1927; a catalog describing factors in Kimber Farms' efforts to produce a more profitable White Leghorn chicken; newsletters; and a photograph.

The Ralph H. Sturgeon Papers include correspondence, clippings, and photographs related to Sturgeon’s professional activities and accomplishments in the poultry industry. Included are photographs of Colonel Harlan Sanders and Sturgeon, a letter from President Richard Nixon, newsletters, and judging materials from the American Poultry Association.