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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the three Pond brothers, George F., James B., and Homer. They all have beards and moustaches. Two of the ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
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| Description: | Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett wedding portrait. Full-length portrait of Bennett standing in a studio. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, during his first term. |
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| Description: | Man petting dog, who is sitting on a chair, inside the photographic studio. There is a large studio camera on the left, several pieces of studio furniture,... |
| Date: | 05 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Victorian cocktail room, Park Hotel, featuring a portrait of Queen Victoria and a large pier mirror. |
| Date: | 10 27 1932 |
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| Description: | Fine Arts Studio corridor, 25 W. Main Street, where individual artists taught music, painting, sculpture, dramatics and other allied arts. |
| Date: | 10 27 1932 |
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| Description: | Fine Arts Studio, reception room, 25 W. Main Street, where individual artists taught music, painting sculpture, dramatics and other allied arts. |
| Date: | 04 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Helen Wann Annen (Mrs. P.J. Annen) painting in studio at 2321 Rugby Row. |
| Date: | 02 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Chanticleer orchestra group portrait in front of a fireplace. |
| Date: | 02 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Chanticleer orchestra and manager posing in front of the fireplace. |
| Date: | 02 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Chanticleer orchestra and manager posing in front of the fireplace. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Nuwi, a Mascouten (or Prairie) Potawatomi, who lived at Skunk Hill in Wood Coun... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Bertha Gesell washing and hanging doll clothes. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Early carte-de-visite of a Ho-Chunk man identified as Moccasin. The backdrop indicates the photograph came from Charles Van Schaick’s studio, but it may ha... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of memorial wreath grouping surrounding a draped portrait of W.T. Price. The wreaths have text which read: "... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a man posing sitting in a chair at a table with books on top, possibly Janus (James) Bruce Cartter, 1815-1897. He is in front of a paint... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man posing sitting in a stuffed chair and a woman standing, with her arm on his shoulder, facing him wi... |
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