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| Date: | 06 15 1921 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Lawrence Fitch, Beaver Dam company president. |
| Date: | 10 20 1913 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Granville D. Jones, Wausau attorney. |
| Date: | 10 02 1914 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of William J. Jones, Milwaukee company president. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James D. Mortimer, New York company president. |
| Date: | 09 25 1914 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of David Stuart Rose, Milwaukee lawyer. |
| Date: | 10 19 1914 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated side profile studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James F. Trottman, Milwaukee lawyer and manufacturer. |
| Date: | 09 28 1914 |
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| Description: | Seated waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emanuel A. Wurster, Milwaukee company secretary and treasurer. |
| Date: | 02 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of fathers and sons with Governor Oscar Rennebohm in the governor's reception room of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Farm families from eleven... |
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| Description: | Frank O. King paints his character "Uncle Walt" onto a rowboat. The boy in the background on a pier is King's grand-nephew David Witt Nye. |
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| Description: | Forrest Flower in his studio posing for a "formal" picture. Flower was a Wisconsin regional WPA artist known for working in the "socialist" style. Flower w... |
| Date: | 04 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Newlyweds George and Lorna Homes decorate their first apartment at 1028 Erin Street. George places his oil painting "Russian Spring" on the wall as Lorna i... |
| Date: | 04 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Noted Chicago artist Christian Abrahamson holds a palette and paintbrushes as he stands next to a portrait of the retired chief justice of the Wisconsin Su... |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Gladys Dieruf, UW Extension librarian, looks at one of the arts and crafts reproductions collected by the University of Wisconsin Extension Bureau of Infor... |
| Date: | 10 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Artist Francis Chapin is shown standing beside his oil painting "House of Dogs, Mexico" which the Madison Art Association displayed at the Madison Free Lib... |
| Date: | 03 25 1890 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of formally-dressed Henry Hamilton Bennett. This is his wedding portrait, which was made when he married Eva... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | T.R. Moudler, manager of IH San Antonio motor truck district sitting next to "Jess." The men are likely in the office of an International Harvester dealers... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American man carrying a bushel basket full of cotton, location unknown. |
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| Description: | Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two African American agricultural workers picking cotton, location unknown. A little girl sits in a... |
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| Description: | Merriman Smith of UPI, the "dean of the White House correspondents," with President Lyndon Johnson, in the White House. Smith enjoyed a close relationship ... |
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| Description: | A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses. |
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