Summary Information

Title: Svoboda Church Furniture Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1896-1982 (bulk 1896-1964)

Creator:

• Svoboda Church Furniture Company (Kewaunee, Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 160; PH Green Bay Mss 160

Quantity: 10.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes, 10 flat boxes, 23 large folders, and 1 tube) and 11 photographs and 5 negatives in 1 folder

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

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

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Records, mainly 1896-1964, of the Svoboda Church Furniture Company, a company specializing in the manufacture of altars, pulpits, and other church furniture and ornamentation. Contains business records and detailed drawings and blueprints for altars, pulpits and lecterns, railings, organ screens, chancel furniture, and pews and a few photographs. Designs are included for specific churches in Wisconsin as well as throughout the Midwest. The business records consist primarily of fragmentary correspondence, clippings, product literature, and scattered financial volumes. Numerous additional drawings document the Raton Manufacturing Company of Rio Creek, Wisconsin, which was acquired by Svoboda.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to and use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0160

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