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Date: | 12 13 1917 |
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Description: | A color cartoon depicting Robert M. La Follette, Sr. as pro-German, showing Kaiser pinning medals on him. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A Ringling Brothers poster of "Kings of the Circus World", depicting Alf. T., Al., Chas., John and Otto Ringling. |
Date: | 10 23 1913 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Louis J. Petit, Milwaukee banker. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | International Harvester advertising artist sitting at his desk in a studio office with a wistful look on his face. Graphics from Deering brand advertisemen... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Four men use a ladder to pose on top of each other. There is a painted backdrop behind them. They are wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, and trou... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f... |
Date: | 06 17 1932 |
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Description: | Pablo the Magician holding a "Capital Times" newspaper in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. He is using the newspaper in his act with Fanchon and Marco's s... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), by Harold A. Stewart. |
Date: | 03 10 1909 |
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Description: | Drawing of James Horlick (1844-1921), was done by Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922). Under the pseudonym "Spy," Ward contributed portraits of famous peop... |
Date: | 08 31 1946 |
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Description: | Either Anton de Beck or Theuphiel Ropson, Belgian-Americans who recorded French and Walloon dialect ballads for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
Date: | 07 30 1946 |
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Description: | Helene Stratman-Thomas, right, Moody Price and three other people. |
Date: | 08 1941 |
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Description: | Charles Robinson, singer of lumberjack songs, left, with an unidentified man sitting behind what appears to be a microphone on a stand. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Two men are seated holding guitars in luthier Leo Uhlmeyer's store. There are more instruments on the floor in front of them and hanging on the wall behind... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Interior of a guitar maker's workshop, with a workbench, tools, guitars, and other stringed instruments. In the foreground, there is a ghostly image of a... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window. |
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