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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval-framed formal studio portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mary Elizabeth Mears, also known as Nellie Wildwood. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f... |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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| Description: | Vignetted studio portrait of Mrs. Simon Kander, author of The Settlement Cook Book, wearing a hat. |
| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Secretary Ona Sanford in her office. Ona handles all of the correspondence for Wittwer and Webster, Inc., insurance agency. |
| Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Louis N. (Dorothy) French, new women's editor for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Barbara Muckler, "Wisconsin State Journal," Society Department, assistant editor. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss Olive White of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works. She is sitting at a desk, with a phone to her left ear. A ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A woman in a dress, heels, apron, and pearls poses next to an open International Harvester freezer. The freezer, a unit with the lid on top, is full of foo... |
| Date: | 10 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Nell V. Nichols, left, field editor for "Woman's Home Companion" magazine, and Mrs. Andrew (Bess) Hopkins, Shorewood, sitting side by side on a couch. Mrs.... |
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| Description: | An elderly Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and holding a cane, and a Ho-Chunk girl standing next to her, are outside the closed doorway of a Ho-Chunk lodge i... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A seated studio portrait of the photographer and his wife, Alice Kent Trimpey. |
| Date: | 09 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Eleanore Oimoen of 445 West Gilman Street answers a phone call in an office. She is a secretary for Edwin B. Fred, University of Wisconsin president. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Pulitzer Prize winning author Zona Gale wearing a hat and a coat with a fur collar. |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
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