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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A model posed as an angel sits on the ground in front of a sylvan backdrop, warming her hands over a fire. She wears wings and a dress of diaphanous materi... |
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| Description: | Triptych studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman in a circus costume lifting weights over her head. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Adult men, dressed in uniforms, posing in front of a painted backdrop with sporting equipment indoors at the Appleton Turners Festival. Their teacher stand... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of a studio portrait of two girls posed in a small "boat" in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing fancy dresses, and one girl hold... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | In a studio "gag" portrait, two men sit at a table playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Both are showing their hands and smoking cigars. Each man ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of three men, seated at a table, playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Each man has a bottle of beer and one man smokes a cigar. Tw... |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of an African American man, wearing a formal suit, standing next to a young girl mounted side saddle on a pony. She is reading a book and has ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls' Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four girls from the Sloan family. One of the girls is sitting on a swing, two are standing, and one sits ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Studio cabinet card group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the eight members of the Lakeside Polo Club of Racine. Four members are standing behin... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Full-length group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three members of the Lakeside Polo Club for a cabinet card portrait, wearing roller skates and... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eight members of the Lakeside Polo [Roller Hockey] Club posing with two finely dressed gentlemen wearing c... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | An album page decorated with a hand-painted stem of wild geranium flowers features four photographs of Stuart Fargo, age two years, and his sister Dorothy,... |
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| Description: | Christine, Laurie and Muriel Peterson with their Christmas tree. Christine (mother) is sitting in a chair with her arm around Muriel who is standing next t... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman is holding a doll while standing beside an open glass topped display case. She is in a gallery or museum, with paintings hanging on t... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Lina Martin, in costume as Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Lillian Carpenter, in costume as Mignon from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wil... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Text on the basketball reads: "Wausau Cardinals '15." Five young men are sitting on small stools for a studio portrait. The man in the center is wearing sh... |
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