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Date: | 02 06 1911 |
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Description: | Older worker standing in front of carts loaded with wood in an International Harvester factory (most likely Osborne Works). |
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Description: | Sherman Booth (1812-1904), abolitionist editor and leader. |
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Description: | Head and shoulders profile portrait of a young John D. Rockefeller, taken around the time he began to make his mark as an oil baron. |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of banker and philanthropist, J.P. Morgan. |
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: | Workers in the metal finishing room at the McCormick Reaper Works. In 1902 the factory became part of the International Harvester Company. |
Date: | 10 12 1914 |
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Description: | View of a nurse applying a bandage to the arm of a worker at an International Harvester factory (possibly Osborne Works in Auburn, NY). |
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Description: | Portrait of Orville Wright inscribed to aviation publicist and historian Harry Bruno, whose collection of papers and photographs is housed at the Wisconsin... |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edwin H. Blashfield, American mural painter and mosaic artist, whose work can be seen at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Whe... |
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... |
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Description: | Portrait of Daniel C. French, sculptor of the figure, "Wisconsin" which graces the top of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. French met George Post at the C... |
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Description: | Portrait of sculptor Adolph Weinman. He sculpted the South Pediment at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln that sits in f... |
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Description: | Portrait of Orrin H. Ingram, lumber baron and philanthropist, especially for the development of Ripon College. |
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Description: | Glenn Hammond Curtiss, whose reputation in American aviation is second only to the Wright Brothers. Some Curtiss defenders point out that he actually flew ... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Julius Porter Wait and his wife, Lucretia Melvina (Mosher) Wait. He has a beard, and is sitting on a chair, wearing dark work clothes and tall, loose boots... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Portrait of Stanley Robert McCormick (1874-1947), son of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). |
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Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Jefferson Cunningham, Wisconsin's Secretary of State from 1891-1895. |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Halle Steensland seated with his hand inside his suit jacket. |
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Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of John Nolen, landscape architect. |
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