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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of "Cothren, Montgomery Morrison (Sept. 18, 1819-Oct. 2, 1888), lawyer, politician, judge, b. Jerusalem, N.Y. He moved with his parents t... |
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| Description: | Painted portrait of Orland Steen Loomis in a suit and blue necktie. |
| Date: | 03 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette buying a "buddy poppy" from two women in behalf of the American Legion. The governor is standing in his Wisconsin State Cap... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States from 1837-1841. Born on December 5, 1782 in Columbia, New York, ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin Banking Commission shown examining a State Historical Society collection of coins and currency, and bank notes signed by some of W... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Ellis B. Usher, editor and prominent Wisconsin Democrat, from the frontispiece of his multi-volume history of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a... |
| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h... |
| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha... |
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| Description: | Vignetted portrait of Francis Scott Key, author of the poem that inspired "The Star Spangled Banner". The poem was written while he was on a ship in Baltim... |
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| Description: | Lithographic print of portrait of Francis Scott Key. In the background is the sheet music for the Star Spangled Banner, and an American flag. |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of William Penn Lyon, a Wisconsin attorney, state legislator, and State Supreme Court justice (1871-1894). During the Civil War William P... |
| Date: | 02 19 1958 |
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| Description: | An oil portrait of Gov. Walter S. Goodland is brought out of storage to be hung in the governor's office with those of other former governors. Arlene Weide... |
| Date: | 12 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon Thomson (left) and former Governor Walter J. Kohler Jr. examine the oil portrait of Kohler which was unveiled in the Governor's private off... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length, halftone printed, studio portrait of Gilbert M. Woodward. Woodward served as a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from 1883 ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Newton Minow and a woman on his staff are facing each other, having a discussion. There is a portrait of John F. Kennedy hanging on the wall behind them. |
| Date: | 04 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson sits at his desk during a press conference. Newsmen seated around the governor's desk are (from the left): Mack Hoffma... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an oil painting portrait of Franklin Leander Gilson, a lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. Painting was made by Robert Schade in 1883, ... |
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