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Horse-Drawn Trolley

Date: 1890
Description: Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising...
Painting

The New Synagogue in Ward II

Date: 1858
Description: A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt...
Photograph

Child on Scale

Date: 1897
Description: A young girl wearing a coat and hat is standing on a scale that is chained to a post near a building.
Drawing

Alexander Mitchell Estate

Date: 1872
Description: Lithograph elevated view of the Alexander Mitchell home and gardens seen from the corner of Ninth and Spring Streets. Pedestrians, horse-riders and a horse...
Photograph

Hilda and Jack Johnston

Date: 1887
Description: Full-length cabinet card of two young children in front of a painted backdrop of the ocean. They are attired in coats, dresses and hats, and are holding ha...
Photograph

Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston

Date: 1895
Description: Cabinet card portrait of Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947), wife of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. She is wearing a seal ...
Photograph

Kunigunde Willms

Date: 1880
Description: Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her hair is pulled back, and she wears earrings, a white ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1885
Description: The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ...
Photograph

Frederick Layton at Sea

Date: 1891
Description: Frederick Layton standing on deck smoking a cigar while at sea in a Kodak #2 camera portrait by T.W. Ingersoll from St. Paul, Minnesota. The photographer's...
Photograph

Grace Hayman Fowle

Date: 02 1893
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Grace Hayman Fowle. She is wearing gloves, and a fur-trimmed cloak over a flower printed and ruffled dress. Grace was the ...
Photograph

29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers

Date: 08 1889
Description: Formal outdoor group portrait of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. They are posing while lined up on the front steps of the Milwaukee Armory building...
Photograph

Hook and Ladder Company No. 1

Date: 10 16 1865
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the members of Milwaukee Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. Two men are posing behind the group on a platform bearing several U.S. fl...
Photograph

George Brumder

Date: 1860
Description: A seated, three-quarter ambrotype portrait of George Brumder (1839-1910) wearing a suit, vest and necktie. He has a beard but no mustache. His shirt studs...
Photograph

Carriage

Date: 1890
Description: A team of two horses is harnessed to a highly polished carriage with a side lamp. The driver is holding a long whip and is wearing a top hat, winter coat a...
Photograph

William Charles Brumder

Date: 1890
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of William C. Brumder (1868-1929), eldest son of George and Henriette Brandhorst Brumder. He is wearing a suitcoat, tie ...
Photograph

Herbert Paul Brumder

Date: 1893
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Herbert Paul Brumder (1885-1967), the youngest child of George and Henriette Brandhorst Brumder. He is wearing a double breaste...
Photograph

Brumder Family Group

Date: 1895
Description: A round framed group portrait of a finely dressed group of men and women who are posing in front of a building with a door or window with closed shutters i...
Photograph

Brumder House

Date: 1890
Description: A view of the south (Wells Street) side of the two-story brick Italianate house at the corner of 10th Street purchased by George Brumder in 1882. An uniden...
Photograph

Grant Martin and Katharine Sherwood as Hermann and Dorothea

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Grant Martin and Katharine Sherwood, in costume as Hermann and Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and D...
Photograph

Carol Sanderson and Paul D. Carpenter as Martha and George Washington

Date: 1885
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of two children, Carol Sanderson and Paul D. Carpenter, in costume as Martha and George Washington. The reverse of the cabinet car...

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