1918 Print Drawing Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth - ORIGINAL HISTORIC WIS1 XAOA5 The Guest of Honor (1925)

The Guest of Honor (1925)

"Vicia lathyroides"

51 x 33 cm

Ayer & Son

This is an original 1923 black and white print ad for watches by the Elgin National Watch Company

1918 Print Drawing Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth - ORIGINAL HISTORIC WIS1 XAOA5 The Guest of Honor (1925)This is an original 1918 halftone print featuring a drawing made by Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. The Drawing was reproduced from the original in the Wisconsin Historical Library. Elmer E. Ellsworth was a lawyer and soldier, best known as the first conspicuous casualty of the American Civil War. In 1859, Ellsworth became engaged to Carrie Spafford, daughter of a local industrialist and city leader. In 1860, he went to Springfield, Illinois, to work