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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.
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Hommel's New Store
June 29, 1932
Hommel's Star Food Store at 606 S. Park Street, with promotional truck in front of store, and children looking on. Vehicle (Ballyhoo Truck) has a painted sign on the side: "Hommel Bros. new food st...
Montgomery Ward Department Store
May 20, 1930
View of the Montgomery Ward Store, on the corner at 102 N. Hamilton Street.
Hommel's Star Food Store
June 29, 1932
Exterior of the Hommel's Star Food Store at 606 South Park Street. Several children are on the sidewalk in the front.
Montogmery Ward Store
May 20, 1930
The Montgomery Ward Store Building at 100 North Hamilton Street, at the intersection of Pinckney and North Hamilton Streets. The building was designed by Law, Law, and Potter in 1929 and is made of...
State Street and the Capitol Theatre
August 16, 1932
Pedestrians (in motion) are walking down State Street towards the Capitol building, near the Capitol Theatre marquee, RKO sign, the YWCA, Oettings Restaurant and Wisconsin Sporting Goods store. Tex...
Feldman Box Co.
April 19, 1932
View across street towards the Feldman Paper Box Co., 29 N. Charter Street, and Jewel Tea Co., 31 N. Charter Street, from the south.
