Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Portrait photography
Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 01 17 1917 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Clarence Darrow, signed by Darrow and embossed by photographer Mabel Sykes. |
| Date: | 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Color portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher. |
| Date: | 08 20 1919 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of Jeanne Carr, the wife of Ezra S. Carr. |
| Date: | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two businessmen visiting a log drive along the Wisconsin River. They stand atop a log holding peavey hooks. |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923) and her son Stanley R. McCormick, sitting on a wooden bench. Mrs. McCormick was the wife of inventor and in... |
| Date: | 10 05 1931 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of George Stahl, chimney sweep, with a pipe in his mouth, and wearing a tall hat and carrying a bag and a rope around his shoulder. He is standing... |
| Date: | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane. |
| Date: | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Double head and shoulders shot of Spencer Tracy in a sailor hat, from when he was in the Navy in the last days of World War I. |
| Date: | 1975 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands. |
| Date: | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class. |
| Date: | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of suffragist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt. |
| Date: | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Interior view of home, perhaps taken through an open window. The sash and sill are in the foreground. A woman is sitting on the piano bench in front of a g... |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Richard Lloyd Jones, editor and publisher (1911-1919) of the Wisconsin State Journal, at his desk. |
| Date: | 1960 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A father is holding his young son in his arms. |
| Date: | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Posed portrait of Wisconsin man John Cookson wearing a helmet and holding a radio headset to his ear. This was during the Spanish Civil War. |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro... |
| Date: | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
| Date: | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush. |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:
