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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
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| Description: | Sherman Booth (1812-1904), abolitionist editor and leader. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland sitting at his desk in the Capitol with pipe in hand. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor, the first photographer for the Milwaukee Journal, poses in a formal portrait, standing with his pipe. He wears a cravat style tie ... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth. The text at the bottom reads: "I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth." |
| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm... |
| Date: | 02 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Arthur Towell, chairman of Dane County 1945 Red Cross war fund campaign. Mr. Towell heads the Arthur Towell Incorporated Advertising Agency. |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 08 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Professor Henry Ewbank, the first director of Wisconsin Public Radio-WHA, and internationally known as a pioneer in radio education and the tea... |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John A. Wilkie, who was appointed an Honorary Three Star General of the South Korean Army and later was employed by the Wisconsin Department of... |
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| Description: | A member of the Food, Tobacco and Agriculture workshop at Highlander Folk School posing near a tree with a fedora and cigar in his hand. |
| Date: | 01 22 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Clifford L. Lord, director, State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of J. Robert Taylor with a pipe in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor standing in the middle of a street, holding a large camera. On the left, a car is driving by, and a person is walking on the sidewalk in t... |
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| Description: | Self-portrait of the photographer sitting on a table near a wall wearing a hat and holding a newspaper and pipe. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The photographer holding a large Northern Pike and smoking a pipe in a living room. |
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