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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman in an old-fashioned dress sits and knits by a table in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A young woman poses with a basket of flowers over one arm. She wears an old-fashioned costume and stands in front of a painted backdrop which mimics a ston... |
| 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: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Major General Franz Sigel, posed in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Civil War veterans who compiled the Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers for the Wisconsin Adjutant General's Office in the late 1880s. Back Ro... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A painting, possibly a portrait of the two founders of the Switzer Foundation for Girls, Margaret and Sarah Switzer. A woman on the left is holding a scrol... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of an infant sitting in a chair, with hands clasped in front of his or her chest, and gazing downward. The infant is wearing a very long ... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait of two women standing in front of a painted backdrop, behind a prop birch fence. Both women are wearing dresses with r... |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of a smiling woman sitting in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a coat and has short, curly hair. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a woman and a young boy posing in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is sitting on the left wearing a patterned dress and holding ... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of two young girls posing sitting in a painted rowboat prop in front of a painted backdrop. Both girls are wearing printed dresses and ar... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a woman standing in front of a painted backdrop next to a chair. She is wearing a blouse and skirt, and has a short hairstyl... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a young woman standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is resting her right arm on a covered chair and is wearing a dres... |
| Date: | 01 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Emma W. Gebhardt sitting in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long, polka-dotted skirt, a printed blouse, a band... |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a cherub seated in front of an easel. She is holding a brush and palette and is painting a heart and flowers with the text: "Lovi... |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card with the image of a little girl with an artists palette and two paint brushes. The word "Valentine" appears on the palette. Sh... |
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| Description: | Tintype of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison, (in the window), with her friend Celia Gibson posing in front of a painted backdrop. |
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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: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of John (1836-1904) and Ethelinda (1856-1947) Johnston sitting on a decorative wall in front of a painted backdrop of trees. John, a successf... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card studio portrait of John (1836-1904) and Ethelinda (1856-1947) Johnston sitting on a decorative wall in front of a painted backdrop of trees. ... |
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