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Magazine or Periodical

Cardinal Paul Cullen

Date: 11 30 1878
Description: Illustration of the late Cardinal Paul Cullen, Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin.
Magazine or Periodical

Going To Mass

Date: 07 09 1870
Description: Irish people on the way to mass, including children surrounding the priest.
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1892
Description: Cover of a Swedish advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a wizard(?) surrounded by male and femal...
Photograph

Milwaukee Panorama Artists

Date: 11 1887
Description: Group portrait of German painters relaxing in the studio of the American Panorama Company, during a break from painting the Jerusalem cyclorama depicting t...
Photograph

Herman Amberg Preus Family and Visitors

Date: 1872
Description: The Herman Amberg Preus family and visitors, all wearing hats, are playing croquet in their yard. One child is on a rocking horse and another child is by a...
Photograph

Christian Keyser Preus Family at Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1873
Description: The Christian Keyser Preus family posing in the yard of the Spring Prairie parsonage with horse-drawn vehicles, and ducks. Behind them is a rural frame hou...
Photograph

Reverend H.A. Preus and Family

Date: 1873
Description: Reverend H.A. Preus and his family pose seated outdoors in front of the Spring Prairie parsonage.
Photograph

View of the Dining Table

Date: 1876
Description: "View of the Dining Table" from the "Dedication of Blue Mounds Church" section of Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views", showing a long banquet tab...
Photograph

Congregation of First Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 1876
Description: First Norwegian Lutheran Church with congregation posed outside the front entrance, part of a set of stereographs entitled "The Synod at Decorah, 1876" fro...
Photograph

Norwegian Sunday School Picnic

Date: 1873
Description: A Norwegian Sunday school picnic, perhaps held at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. The original stereograph is in the collection of the Norwegian-American Hist...
Photograph

View of the Ministers Present

Date: 08 30 1876
Description: "View of the ministers present" from the "Dedication of Blue Mounds Church" section of Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." The congregation of t...
Photograph

Rev. N. Brandt and Family

Date: 07 18 1876
Description: "Rev. N. Brandt and family, Decorah, Iowa" from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Nils Olsen Brandt was born in Valdres Norway in 1824 and die...
Photograph

The Ministers

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph of a group portrait of men assembled on the steps to a church door. "The Ministers" gathered at "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapol...
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

Masonic Hall

Date: 1870
Description: Text reads: "Masonic Hall at the corner of College Avenue and Oneida Street; built in 1855 by Theodore Conkey, it burned in 1874. The Zuehlke Building was ...
Print

Baptist Church and a Man in Top Hat

Date: 1870
Description: View of a Baptist church, two small trees, and a man standing in front of the church, wearing a top hat. Baptist Church, 4th Avenue and Niagara Street, bui...
Photograph

Second Sacred Heart Church

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the Second Sacred Heart Polish Catholic Church. A large group of people are standing in the foreground. Caption reads: "Second Sacred Hear...
Photograph

Everetta Bass and Llora

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass standing next to a woman identified as Llora. They are standing in front of a house at 131 East Montello Street, with the Methodist Church, l...
Book or Pamphlet

Sick Ward at Charity Hospital

Date: 1854
Description: An illustration of a nun/nurse carrying a pitcher in the sick ward of Charity Hospital. Patients lay in rows of beds along the walls.
Print

Jeff and Beauregard on Their Last Ride

Date: 1860
Description: Jefferson Davis (J.D.) and General Beauregard (Gen. B) are carried by two running devils, the "Imps of Old Nick."
Below is the caption and verse,
"JE...

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