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Painting

Herndan Hotel on the Missouri River

Date: 1858
Description: Hölzlhuber received a request from the German theater director Henry Börnstein in St. Louis, Missouri, to purchase his theater sets and music. Accordingly,...
Drawing

"Benton," Com. Foote's Flagship

Date: 1862
Description: The USS "Benton" was an "ironclad" ship which served as Capt. Andrew Hull Foote's flagship during the March 1862 assault on Island No. 10.
Photograph

Kindergarten Class

Date: 1899
Description: Students raise their hands in a kindergarten class at Crow School.
Photograph

Morgan L. Martin

Date: 1891
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Morgan L. Martin, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry.
Photograph

Old Abe Portrait

Date: 1870
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a stuffed bald eagle, purportedly, Old Abe. There is a flag at the left and at the bottom is written "The Eagel [sic] o...
Photograph

Portrait of Hugh Claiborne Adams

Date: 1894
Description: Carte-de-visite of a three-quarter length portrait of Hugh Claiborne Adams, age 18, dressed in coattails with his arm on the back of an elaborately carved ...
Photograph

Portrait of Young Amanda McCormick Adams

Date: 1893
Description: Waist-up portrait of young Amanda McCormick Adams (later Mrs. Percy M. Tracy) dressed in white.
Manuscript

List of Sick and Wounded Soldiers

Date: 10 24 1862
Description: First page of a list of sick and wounded Wisconsin soldiers from the First Wisconsin Cavalry found at the Fifth St. Hospital in St. Louis by Cordelia Harve...

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