1895 Steel Engraving Portrait Jerome Anthony Watrous Milwaukee Newspaper HWC1 XMF5 Prime Minister

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This is an original 1904 black and white print ad for for the two-speed gear chainless bicycle by the Pope Manufacturing Company

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This is an original 1920 halftone print of a pen drawing of a Turk of Constantinople

1895 Steel Engraving Portrait Jerome Anthony Watrous Milwaukee Newspaper HWC1 XMF5 Prime MinisterThis is an original 1895 black and white steel engraving of a portrait of Jerome Anthony Watrous, who moved to Wisconsin from Conklin, New York, in 1857. Watrous was a member of Company E, 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the U. S. Civil War. During the Spanish American War, Watrous served as a high ranking U. S. Army military officer. Watrous also served as a political figure in the Milwaukee community, becoming a Republican state assemblyman