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Photograph

Ford & Parr Machinists

Date: 1901
Description: View from street of two men wearing work aprons posing in front of the Ford & Parr building at 120 East Washington Avenue. The painted sign on the window r...
Historical Object

Album Page with Violets

Date: 1901
Description: An album page decorated with hand-painted yellow violets features interior and exterior photographic views of the Frank B. Fargo house. At top left, a phot...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children

Date: 1901
Description: Five photographs are mounted on an album page which is decorated with a painting of a honeysuckle sprig. In the photograph at top left, Frank, age three, S...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital

Date: 1901
Description: View of the east facade of the three-story brick hospital with its Richardsonian Romanesque arched stone entrance and Roman Catholic cross-topped turrets. ...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Main Vestibule

Date: 1901
Description: View inside the main entrance looking through the first floor corridor into a furnished room. A stained glass window with a floral motif is above the vesti...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Parlor

Date: 1901
Description: Elements of Victorian design and decoration are seen in the main floor parlor. Ribbon and floral wreathing draws attention to the upper walls and high ceil...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Chapel

Date: 1901
Description: Gothic arches frame the intricately designed and decorated altar of the Sacred Heart chapel. Across the front of the high altar, from left to right, are st...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Private Room I

Date: 1901
Description: View of a small private room with a cast-iron and brass bed. A single window with sheer dotted Swiss tied-back curtains brightens the room. On the hardwoo...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Private Room II

Date: 1901
Description: View of a large, private hospital room with a linen covered cast-iron and brass bed. Two windows with lace tier curtains allow light to enter the room, and...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Ward

Date: 1901
Description: View of the men's first floor ward. Two bearded men are sitting on rocking chairs, dressed in street clothes and holding canes. A man is lying in a bed on...
Photograph

Interior of Hermit Cottage

Date: 1901
Description: An interior view of the Hermit Cottage, which has a four poster rustic birch bed, bedside table, and a decorative rug hanging from the rear birch post. The...
Photograph

Ethnology Building

Date: 1901
Description: Well-dressed men and women are strolling the wet pavement at the Pan American Exposition in front of the Ethnology Building. Some people are standing on th...
Photograph

Grant's Tomb

Date: 1901
Description: Two women posing on the steps of Grant's Tomb.
Photograph

Milwaukee Rooftops

Date: 1901
Description: An elevated view, possibly in the area of 18th Street and Grand (now Wisconsin) Avenue, over the roofs of large homes. There is a large structure at left w...
Photograph

George and Thekla Brumder

Date: 1901
Description: In a photograph labeled "Geo and Teck" George F. Brumder (1878-1961) is sitting and smiling with his wife Thekla Wollaeger Brumder (1879-1950) on the steps...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1901
Description: Text on front reads: "Street Scene, Rice Lake, Wis." The right side of Main Street, looking North. The street is unpaved, with sidewalks in front of the bu...
Photograph

Men in Front of Brown Corliss Engine Company Factory

Date: 1901
Description: Several men posing in front of the newly constructed Brown Corliss Engine Co. machine factory. Caption reads: "Corliss, Wis. About 1901. Men in front of ma...

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