Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Furs
Filter: Year of 1900-1999
Filter: Year of 1940-1949
| Date: | 10 08 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., Department Store, 2-6 E. Mifflin Street, "Silouette Black" window display, with mannequin in a fur coat, hat, and other items of outdoo... |
| Date: | 09 24 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three mannequins wearing coats in Manchesters Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin St., coats and furs department, remodeled second floor. |
| Date: | 09 24 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street, fur coat department with three mannequins in fur coats. |
| Date: | 08 13 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Manchester's Department Store coed model, wearing a fur jacket, hat and purse, posing on the steps of a passenger train, with two pieces of luggage on the ... |
| Date: | 08 13 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Manchesters Department Store model, wearing fur jacket hat and purse, posing with the conductor who is holding her luggage on the steps of a passenger trai... |
| Date: | 06 25 1946 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Display of A. Dean Swift's art work and two mannequins wearing Savidusky's fur coats. Sign says "He brings outdoors, indoors! Wisconsin murals by A. Dean S... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
|---|---|
| Description: | H.S. Manchesters Inc. window display featuring fur hats for back to college. Display contains sign saying: "Furs go to your head." |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three women buying war bonds at Manchester's Department Store while two clerks ring up the sale. The three women are all wearing fur coats, as it is a spec... |
| Date: | 03 29 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Show window containing a mannequin wearing a mink stole, and a display of mink pelts and dressed skins at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 12 01 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Ambassador Lord (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood) and Lady Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, at the train station. Left to right: Lady Halifa... |
| Date: | 12 01 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Lord and Lady Halifax with Madison's mayor, F. Halsey Kraege. |
| Date: | 03 14 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Women executive office employees filing past the casket containing the body of Governor Walter Goodland in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 11 26 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two women in an alcove filled with potted flowers and plants. The older woman is sitting and the other woman, wearing a fur coat, is standing behind her. |
| Date: | 02 13 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | French representatives arrived in Madison aboard the French Gratitude Train (Merci Train) and were welcomed at the Northwestern Depot by the governor and h... |
| Date: | 04 04 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mrs. Florence Schlobohm, who teaches a class in fur remodeling at the Madison Vocational School, fitting a cape pattern on Mrs. Nathan (Mollie) Sweet, a fo... |
| Date: | 04 04 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mrs. Moses W. (Edna) Smith in the process of remodeling her fur cape at a fur remodeling class at the Madison Vocational School. |
| Date: | 04 04 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mrs. David L. (Leta) Williams, left, and Mrs. Claude F. (Louise) Schroeder admire their fur creations at a fur remodeling class at the Madison Vocational S... |
| Date: | 10 20 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Miss Dagne Hougstad, 480 N. Baldwin Street, left, president of the Madison alumnae group of Theta Sigma Phi journalism sorority, and Mrs. Betty Hinckle Dun... |
| Date: | 11 18 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Marjorie White of 25 East Dayton Street wearing a fur coat and head scarf while using what is alleged to be the first 24-hour, outdoor-accessible pay phone... |
| Date: | 03 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: