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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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Furniture Display Room
December 24, 1940
Lowell Frautschi showing a couple a dining room table in the furniture display room at Frautschi's Incorporated, 219 King Street.
CA-VEL Fabrics Window Display
June 20, 1949
CA-VEL fabrics window display at Leath's furniture store, 117 State Street, showing a living room scene with panels of CA-VEL deep pile mohair upholstery fabrics, an angora goat whose fleece is kno...
Lowell Frautschi at West Washington Avenue Underpass Hearing
November 25, 1947
Lowell Frautschi, Vice President Frautschi's Furniture Store, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ...
Frautschi Window Display
September 26, 1930
Frautschi window display, 213-221 State Street. The window is featuring a GE radio, and living room furniture.
Manchesters Formal Dress Department
September 24, 1940
Manchesters Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street formal dress department with mannequins in two full-length gowns. Second floor remodeled.
Manchester's, Inc., Mannequin
September 25, 1940
Manchester's Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street. Mannequin in a dress with shoe department display and purse display, second floor remodeling.
