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Charles Allis
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Quarter-length portrait of Charles Allis, president of the Allis-Chalmers Company (1901-1905), vice-president and director of the Milwaukee Trust Company, director of the First National Bank, trustee of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and organizer and president of the Chicago Belting Company. He was also first president of the Milwaukee Art Society, a trustee of the Layton Art Gallery, and his home in Milwaukee has been converted into the Charles Allis Art Museum.
1901
Stein
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WHi 154214
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David Adler
Lithographic portrait of David Adler, a retail clothier, one of the organizers of the Wisconsin National Bank, one of the founders and a vice-president of the National Straw Works, and a director o...
Edwin C. Eldridge
circa 1890-1899
Quarter-length portrait of Edwin Eldridge. He was the first curator of the Layton Art Gallery, and an accomplished portrait artist. He stimulated an interest in art in Wisconsin by giving lectures ...
Charles L. Aarons
1925
Quarter-length portrait of Charles Lehman Aarons, a lawyer and Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, from 1925 to 1950.
Charles L. Aarons
1928
Waist-up portrait of Charles Lehman Aarons, who was a lawyer and Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge from 1925 to 1950.
Charles Stolper
Quarter-length studio portrait of Charles Stolper, Milwaukee company president and treasurer.
