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| Smith Family | Title: Smith Family Papers, 1847-1990
Quantity: 5.2 cubic feet (9 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes) and 137 photographs (1 archives box); plus additions of 0.9 cubic feet (2 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), and 990 photographs and 553 negatives (1 records center carton, 2 archives boxes, 3 card boxes, 1 flat box and 1 oversize folder) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 20; PH Green Bay Mss 20; M2002-010; M2004-002 Abstract: Papers documenting the life of multiple generations of the Smiths, a prominent De Pere family: principally Dominicus Jordan, his son-in-law B.F. Smith, grandsons A.G. Wells and Horace J. Smith, granddaughters Addie and “Lizzie” Smith, and great-grandson Robert C. (Pete) Smith. Included in the papers are the records of Jordan’s general store, the business interests of A.G. Wells, records relating to B.F. Smith’s interest in the lumber industry, and Horace J. Smith’s work as an attorney. Correspondence files are extensive and include letters from Addie and Lizzie while attending Rockford Female Seminary in the 1880s, letters from Horace while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin, and correspondence from all five of Horace’s children during their service in World War II. In addition, the many photographs include individual and group shots, pictures of the family home on Broadway, and photographs of the store. |
| Smith's Furniture & Undertaking (Wittenberg, Wis.) | Title: Smith's Furniture & Undertaking Records, 1901-1947
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Green Bay Mss 31 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. |
| Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology | Title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology: Native American Portrait Photographs, 1907
Quantity: 100 photographs (1 archives box) Call Number: PH 990 Abstract: Platinum prints made by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology of Native Americans in 1907. The images are studio portraits, mostly men but including some boys, from plains and woodland tribes, many in regalia. The majority of the images were made by De Lancey W. Gill. Charles Milton Bell also made some of the images. |