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| Date: | 06 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Seven jumbo enlargements of photographs of World War II scenes used to create the War Bond selling exhibit at War Bond Department teller's booths at First ... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Civil War soldier standing and holding a rifle. |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Men from Wisconsin Rapids who bore arms against Spain in the Spanish-American War. From left to right in front of a painted backdrop are Charles N. Laramie... |
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| Description: | Captain George Nobles' weapons and sash used in the Civil War, posed in a studio in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | A tinted tintype of a Civil War soldier posing with an officer's sword in front of an elaborately painted studio backdrop depicting a tent, an American fla... |
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| Description: | View of a room filled with portraits and relics from the Civil War. A piano is placed below a window across the room, and the walls are lined with framed p... |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of World War II veteran Ruby Whiterabbit. She is sitting and wearing an eagle feather war bonnet (m... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop and a U.S. Flag of Civil War soldier Elon Frances Brown of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, posing in unifor... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Civil War veterans who compiled the Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers for the Wisconsin Adjutant General's Office in the late 1880s. Back Ro... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | "Triumph over Tyranny," by Symeon Shi Min at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of General Cutler in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | "Don't Let the Shadow Touch Them," by Lawrence Beall Smith displayed at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter-length portrait of Thomas (Tom) Forbush, Company E, 61st Illinois Infantry, holding his musket. He was better known as a river pilot on the S... |
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| Description: | Interior of the Heard House, built in 1795. The room includes Civil War relics, portraits, and Confederate flags. In the corner two doors lead out of the r... |
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| Description: | Robert K. Beecham studio portrait in front of a painted background, at age 26. In the book "As If It Were Glory," Robert Beecham recounts his Civil War exp... |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of William Hormusen, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Major General Franz Sigel, posed in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Photograph from an original painting of Colonel William (Billy) Stephen Hamilton, M. Smith Photography in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Son of Revolutionary War hero ... |
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