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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three girls holding hands in a ring (dancing). |
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| Description: | Four of the Gesell children in a studio setting in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gerhard Gesell, Jr., wearing a baseball uniform. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Wilma Gesell in a feathered hat, fur stole and muff. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Arnold Gesell with a large tricycle. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Arnold Gesell in a humorous pose dressed as Theodore Roosevelt in his Roughrider days. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a group of German panorama painters on a scaffolding in their Milwaukee studio, with The Atlanta Cyclorama as a backdrop. Included in the... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Robert B.L. Murphy. Robert Brady Lawrence Murphy was born on December 5, 1901 at 711 Langdon Street in Madison, Wisconsin. H... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backgroud of Zintka Lanuni Colby as a little girl, wearing a white dress. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A large group of people sitting around a table in the yard. The men and women are wearing hats. The table has a large piece of ornamental glassware on it. ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Tollef Olsen family posed around a table in the yard with the family dog. A framed print of a long-haired retriever is placed prominently on a chair to... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova... |
| Date: | 04 26 2002 |
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| Description: | Former Governor Tommy G. Thompson speaks at the unveiling of his official portrait, painted by portrait artist George Pollard. The event took place at The ... |
| Date: | 04 26 2002 |
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| Description: | Former Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus speaks at the unveiling of a portrait of Governor Arthur McArthur at The Madison Club. The painting is by portrait arti... |
| Date: | 04 26 2002 |
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| Description: | Portrait artist George Pollard (left) and former Governor Tommy G. Thompson at the unveiling of Pollard's portrait of Thompson at the Madison Club. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The Henry Hooker family in front of a picket fence before their stone house, which has a bird cage and a picture hanging on its front porch. In the 1870 c... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two young men wearing boots and hats. They are leaning on rifles in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of a church interior looking up the aisle between the pews and towards the altar. An acoustical hood or sounding board is over the pulpit, and the alt... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Interior view of church from the rear towards the altar, probably Luther Valley Church, originally built in 1863. A steeple was added in the 1870s. The alt... |
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