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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man dressed as a cowboy. He is aiming a gun in one hand and holding a whip in the other. Th... |
| Date: | 07 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Charles B. Seals, and his father Bellamy, have received a citation from the Puss'n Boots bronze award committee. The citation resulted from pictures of the... |
| Date: | 01 1969 |
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| Description: | A photo shoot for David R. Obey's first campaign for Congress picturing him as assistant majority leader with Majority Leader Bob Huber (partially obscured... |
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| Description: | A female model poses with a camera in her lap while sitting in the grass. She is wearing a black bathing suit, a striped cape, and shoes with knee-high sto... |
| Date: | 08 1979 |
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| Description: | Flashy models received much attention from amateur photographers at the Sentinal Photo Show. |
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| Description: | Harry E. Hill, seated at a desk, with a shrouded skull image to his left. The skull is exposed to look translucent, as is common in spirit photography. |
| Date: | 01 1989 |
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| Description: | Photographers Edgar Mueller and Ernie Anheuser display some of Ernie's photos. |
| Date: | 05 1997 |
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| Description: | Photographer Edgar Mueller photographed while covering an assignment at the seminary at Mt. Calvary. |
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| Description: | Interior view of a barber shop. Two men are standing while shaving and cutting the hair of two men posing sitting in barber's chairs. The man standing on t... |
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| Description: | The tattered remains of a processing envelope from The Photoart House. Handwritten on the envelope is "Ice Machine, 111, 893," "Schoelkopf, 210 E Wash Ave.... |
| Date: | 10 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Text with the photograph reads: "Paul Vanderbilt, curator of the photographic collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at the opening of t... |
| Date: | 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Paul Vanderbilt, the curator emeritus of Iconographic collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, poses in front of one of his Thematic Panel... |
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| Description: | Perspective view of an unidentified street paved with gravel, with the photographer's silhouette. There is a house on a hill on the right, and more houses ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Stanley Hanks' real estate office at 311 State Street. There is a chair in front of a desk with a calendar and two telephones. Above the d... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. A... |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk of the Reierson Photography Studio storefront, in its new location, 14 East Mifflin Street, between adjoining businesses. The Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | The Reierson Photography Studio storefront, in its new location, 14 East Mifflin Street, between adjoining businesses. The Wisconsin State Capitol is refle... |
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| Description: | Sid standing in a print drying room adjacent to a darkroom (likely at Gisholt). He wears trousers and a tie, and is holding his pipe in his right hand. A p... |
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| Description: | Sid sitting and posing by the print dryer near the darkroom at Gisholt with a cigar in his mouth. |
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| Description: | Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe... |
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