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1922 – Johnson Smith Catalog grows to 400 pages, employing more than 150 people. The company is moved to Racine, Wisconsin after Alfred fails at publishing a magazine that competed against The Saturday Evening Post. 1923 – The catalog grows to 576 pages, with 100,000 copies being printed. 1923–1935 – Throughout the Depression, sales ...
The company was founded in 1926 in Monroe, Wisconsin, a town with a strong concentration of Swiss immigrants and a storied history of cheese production. Ray Kubly, then a senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, completed a project for one of his classes by analyzing the business case for selling Green County cheese via mail order.
Remnants of the old downtown of Edgerton, including the ca. 1860 Bentley Dry Goods store, [117] the 1885 Commercial Hotel, [118] the mid-1880s Red Front Grocery Store, [119] the late-1880s Strucker and Mays Grocery store, [120] the 1890 Tobacco Exchange Bank, [121] the 1916 Spike Brothers Livery, and the ca. 1916 Joe Leary Cigar Store-Badger ...
Remarkably intact old farm begun by New Hampshire immigrant John Severance, and later run by Thomas Pipe and his family for over 100 years. Structures are the balloon framed , Greek Revival -influenced farmhouse and a granary built in the 1850s, a small animal barn built around 1860, an 1880 dairy barn, an 1880 privy , a 1900 corn crib , and a ...
The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West. [3]
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The Wisconsin Chair Company [1] was a manufacturer of furniture and crafted wood products from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. It ran a large factory that for over half a century was the economic backbone of Port Washington, Wisconsin. The factory was destroyed twice: the first time by a huge, devastating fire in 1899 and the second time ...
The Wisconsin Cheeseman is a privately held mail-order food gift company operating in Monroe, Wisconsin.Established in 1946, the company publishes several catalogs and emails each year to promote its line of over 300 products, consisting of Wisconsin cheese, sausage, chocolates, fruitcakes, petits fours, cakes, cookies, fresh fruits, nuts, breads and other assorted food gifts.