Title: Smith's Furniture & Undertaking Records
Inclusive Dates: 1901-1947

Creator:

• Smith's Furniture & Undertaking (Wittenberg, Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 31

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Smith's Furniture and Undertaking business was operated in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, by George Smith and his son Albert. The documents in this collection date 1901 to 1947 and consist mainly of funeral record books listing each client, his age, occupation, cause of death, type of services, and charges. Also included are embalming certificates issued to the Smiths by the State Board of Health and notices of price increases to the Shawano County Board for indigent burials.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0031

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Eugene T. Peterson, Lansing, Michigan, February 17, 1966. Accession Number: M66-46

Processing Information

Processed by Karen Baumann and C. Cruikshank (FGH Intern), March 1, 1973.

	Funeral Record Books
Box   1 Volume   1	1901
Box   1 Volume   2	1905-1906
Box   1 Volume   3	1907
Box   1 Volume   4	1908-1910
Box   1 Volume   5	1910-1912
Box   1 Volume   6	1912-1915
Box   1 Volume   7	1915-1917
Box   1 Volume   8	1917-1919
Box   1 Volume   9	1919-1929
Box   1 Volume   10	1920, 1928-1930
Box   1 Volume   3	1930-1931
Box   1 Volume   11	1931-1936
Box   1 Volume   12	1936-1941
Box   1 Volume   13	1941-1944
Box   1 Volume   14	1944-1947
Box   1 Folder   1	Certificates and Miscellaneous unbound papers, 1910-1947