Title: Horace Seaman Wisconsin Infantry Photograph Collection
Inclusive Dates: 1873-1919

Creator:

• Seaman, Horace M.

Call Number: Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 16

Quantity: 2.0 cubic ft. (4 boxes)

Repository:

Milwaukee Public Library, Frank P. Zeidler Room

Archival Location:

Milwaukee Public Library (Map)

Abstract:

The Seaman Collection contains photographs of the volunteers of the 3rd and 4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiments, Colonel Horace Seaman, his father Galen Seaman, and Galen Seaman's Light Horse Infantry. The majority of the photographs are of the 3rd and 4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment Volunteers prior to and during the regiments' service in the Spanish-American War in 1898.

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Language: English

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Horace Martin Seaman was born in Milwaukee on 1 October 1864. He was the son of Galen and Harriet Seaman. After working in the offices of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad and managing the local office of the Washington Life Insurance Company, he started work with the Seaman Abstract Company that his father ran. In 1893, he earned a law degree from Marquette University and was admitted to the bar. At this time, he became an executive for the Seaman Abstract Company. He left the company in 1902 to become the secretary of the Milwaukee Title Company. In October of 1903, he left that organization and joined the Security Abstract and Title Company where he became the president and counsel of that company. Seaman died in 1959.

In 1886, Horace Seaman enlisted as a private in the Wisconsin National Guard, specifically with the 4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company A. He served with the infantry during the labor riots in Bay View that very same year. He moved up through the ranks over the years and in October 1897 he became the colonel of the 4th Wisconsin. In July of 1898 he mustered out of state service and later that month he mustered into the United States service as the colonel of the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry regiment, which enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War. The regiment never left the United States but went first to Camp Douglas in Wisconsin and later to Camp Shipp in Anniston, Alabama. The 4th Wisconsin was assigned respectively to the 3rd, 4th, and 2nd Army Corps until the regiment was mustered out of service in February of 1899.

The Horace Seaman Wisconsin Infantry Photograph Collection is made up primarily of photos from Colonel Horace M. Seaman’s service with the Wisconsin National Guard. The majority of the photos come from his service with the 4th Wisconsin Infantry in the Spanish-American War of 1898, although many of them are undated. The photos in the collection include portraits of individuals that Seaman served with throughout his years with the Wisconsin National Guard and in his service with the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American War. Also included are group portraits of the various battalion officers and photos of camps in Wisconsin and Alabama, as well as a few photos from World War I. Photos of a non-military nature include images of Galen Seaman and images from some of the places where Horace Seaman worked.

The photos in Box 1 have been arranged alphabetically by last name. The photos in Box 2 have been loosely arranged by subject. Boxes 3 and 4 have no particular arrangement to them beyond the ordering of companies by their letter.

Horace Seaman Wisconsin Infantry Photograph Collection, 1873-1919, Collection 16. Milwaukee Historic Photo Archives, Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Three of the four boxes of the collection have been digitized and can be viewed here: Horace Seaman Wisconsin Infantry Collection.

• Historic Photo Collection. Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 6.

• United Spanish War Veterans, Hugh J. McGrath Camp #4 Records. Local History Manuscript Collection 83.

• World War I Military Portraits Collection. Milwaukee Historic Photo Collection 21.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials. The collection is open to all in accordance with state law. The public may view collections from the Milwaukee Historic Photo Archives by appointment at the Central Library. To request an in-person appointment, create/login to your Special Collections Account. If you have any questions, please contact the Archives and Special Collections Department at mplarchives@milwaukee.gov.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

Donation information is currently unavailable. Materials accessioned as a Historic Photo Collection.

Processing Information

Processed by Jackie Radtke, Photo Librarian, January 1999. Additional processing by Morgan Sawicki and Ashley Von Ruden, fieldwork students, March 2010.

Box   1 Folder   1	Anderson, Martin, 1895
Box   1 Folder   2	Birkhauser, Theodore K., undated
Box   1 Folder   3	Bond, Louis H., undated
Box   1 Folder   4	Borden, W.A., undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Blanchard, R.D., undated
Box   1 Folder   6	Berglund, Charles O., circa 1917
Box   1 Folder   7-8	Burns, E.E., undated
Box   1 Folder   9	Burton, George, undated
Box   1 Folder   10	Cambier, Abraham B., undated
Box   1 Folder   11	Christensen, Clarence, undated
Box   1 Folder   12	Dodd, L.A., undated
Box   1 Folder   13	Erant, Leslie S., undated
Box   1 Folder   14-15	Falk, Oscar, undated
Box   1 Folder   16	Fuller, Harry A., undated
Box   1 Folder   17	Goss, Alfred P., undated
Box   1 Folder   18	Kerr, J.B., undated
Box   1 Folder   19-20	King, Charles, undated
Box   1 Folder   21-22	Kluppak, Andrew J., undated
Box   1 Folder   23	Lamb, Charles W., undated
Box   1 Folder   24	Lynch, John J., undated
Box   1 Folder   25	Lyon, Leroy, undated
Box   1 Folder   26	Malone, William J., undated
Box   1 Folder   27	Manion, John F., undated
Box   1 Folder   28	Miller, Otto A., undated
Box   1 Folder   29	Millun, H.J., 1919
Box   1 Folder   30	Neville, Thomas F., undated
Box   1 Folder   31	Parker, Benjamin F., undated
Box   1 Folder   32	Perthesus, William H., undated
Box   1 Folder   33	Pietsch, Herman, undated
Box   1 Folder   34	Pietrounz, Felix, undated
Box   1 Folder   35	Phelps, Thomas S., undated
Box   1 Folder   36	Rock, Frank D., 1891
Box   1 Folder   37	Rollis, Christopher J., undated
Box   1 Folder   38-39	Seaman, Galen B., group photographs, 1886-1891
Box   1 Folder   40-49	Seaman, Horace, 1889-1899
Box   1 Folder   50	Silbaugh, Jackson, undated
Box   1 Folder   51	Slupecki, Ed I., undated
Box   1 Folder   52	Urquhart, Kenneth J., undated
Box   1 Folder   53	Walsh, William, undated
Box   1 Folder   54-55	Will, Otto C., undated
Box   1 Folder   56	Williams, Charles, undated
Box   1 Folder   57	Wood, Frank B., undated
Box   1 Folder   58	Yates, Arthur W., 1892
Box   1 Folder   59	Group photograph of the Robber's Roost Staff, undated
Box   1 Folder   60	Captains Neville, Geisbush, and Lieutenant Kiely, undated
Box   1 Folder   61	Governor McGovern, Brigadier-General Holway and Colonels Seaman, Cronyn and Zuehlke, circa 1914
Box   1 Folder   62-63	Otto Farn, 1894
Box   2 Folder   1	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, undated
Box   2 Folder   2	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers on the road, undated
Box   2 Folder   3	Group of 4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, undated
Box   2 Folder   4	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers with blanket rolls, undated
Box   2 Folder   5	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers on parade, undated
Box   2 Folder   6	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers at Camp Shipp, undated
Box   2 Folder   7	4th Wisconsin Infantry with members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, undated
Box   2 Folder   8	4th Wisconsin Infantry and a newsboy at Camp Shipp, undated
Box   2 Folder   9	4th Wisconsin Infantry on parade at Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   2 Folder   10	Changing of Sentinels, 4th Wisconsin Infantry at Camp Shipp, 1898
Box   2 Folder   11	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers in formation at Camp Shipp, undated
Box   2 Folder   12	4th Wisconsin Infantry in front of Guard House at Camp Shipp, 1898
Box   2 Folder   13	Color Guard of the 4th Wisconsin Infantry at Camp Shipp, undated
Box   2 Folder   14	4th Wisconsin Infantry Company G, undated
Box   2 Folder   15	Mounted officers in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry, undated
Box   2 Folder   16	Officers in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry, undated
Box   2 Folder   17	Officers of the 4th Wisconsin Infantry, 1st Battalion, undated
Box   2 Folder   18	Group portrait of the officers in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry, 3rd Battalion, undated
Box   2 Folder   19	Group portrait of the officers in the 3rd Battalion with the 7th Wisconsin Infantry, circa 1917
Box   2 Folder   20	Group portrait of officers in 3rd Battalion with 4th Wisconsin at Camp Douglas, undated
Box   2 Folder   21-22	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteer Band, undated
Box   2 Folder   23	4th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteer Band on parade, undated
Box   2 Folder   24	Wisconsin Battery A, First Light Artillery, 1886
Box   2 Folder   25	Wisconsin Battery A, First Light Artillery on a trip to Ripon, 1888
Box   2 Folder   26	Wisconsin Battery A, First Light Artillery in Ripon, 1888
Box   2 Folder   27-28	Wisconsin Battery A, First Light Artillery at Pewaukee, 1888
Box   2 Folder   29	Wisconsin Battery A, First Light Artillery with the Louis Auer Family, undated
Box   2 Folder   30	Wisconsin Battery A, First Light Artillery camp, undated
Box   2 Folder   31	Wisconsin Battery A, First Light Artillery with children in Pewaukee, 1888
Box   2 Folder   32	8th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Band at Chickamauga Park, undated
Box   2 Folder   33	8th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Band, undated
Box   2 Folder   34	4th Wisconsin Infantry leaving Camp Douglas, 1897
Box   2 Folder   35	Sergeant Weeks and Sergeant Wolford at Camp Douglas, 1889
Box   2 Folder   36	Changing of the Guard at the Commanding Office, Camp Douglas, 1898
Box   2 Folder   37	Castle Jessie, Camp Douglas, undated
Box   2 Folder   38	Camp Douglas, wagon, undated
Box   2 Folder   39	Camp Douglas, cemetery, undated
Box   2 Folder   40	Camp Douglas, soldiers, undated
Box   2 Folder   41	Paster Club, 1889
Box   2 Folder   42	Paster Club, 1890
Box   2 Folder   43	Camp Douglas, 1898
Box   2 Folder   44	4th Wisconsin Infantry at Camp Douglas, 1898
Box   2 Folder   45	Officers at Camp Philip Reade, 1888
Box   2 Folder   46	Commanding Officer's tent at Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   2 Folder   47	Horse-drawn wagon of 4th Wisconsin Infantry at Camp Shipp, undated
Box   2 Folder   48	Anniston, Alabama, undated
Box   2 Folder   49-50	Camp Shipp, 1898
Box   2 Folder   51-52	Light Horse Squadron Armory in Milwaukee, undated
Box   2 Folder   53	29 bills of fare for 3rd Infantry, Company E, 1895
Box   2 Folder   54	Invitation to Horace Seaman from Charles King, 1901
Box   2 Folder   55	Invitation to Horace Seaman From Captain Vowell, 1896
Box   3 Folder   43832	Panoramic view of Camp Shipp, undated
Box   3 Folder   3	4th Wisconsin Infantry Band, undated
Box   3 Folder   4	Officers of the 1st Battalion, 4th Wisconsin Infantry, undated
Box   3 Folder   5	Officers of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Wisconsin Infantry, 1899
Box   3 Folder   6	Officers of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Wisconsin Infantry, 1899
Box   3 Folder   7	Army Clerk at Camp Shipp, undated
Box   3 Folder   8	Freight office clerks at Milwaukee Road, 1884
Box   3 Folder   9	Governor Hoard's Group, 1889
Box   3 Folder   10	Wisconsin Assembly, 1873
Box   3 Folder   11	Wisconsin National Guard and crowd, undated
Box   4 Folder   1	4th Wisconsin Infantry hospital staff, Camp Shipp, 1889
Box   4 Folder   2	4th Wisconsin Infantry band, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   3	4th Wisconsin Infantry wagon transportation, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   4	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company A, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   5	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company C, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   6	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company D, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   7	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company E, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   8	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company G, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   9	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company H, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   10	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company I, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   11	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company K, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   12	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company L, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   13	4th Wisconsin Infantry, Company M, Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   14	Wisconsin 1st Field Artillery, Battery A, Camp Douglas, 1897
Box   4 Folder   15	4th Wisconsin Infantry officers, Camp Shipp, 1898
Box   4 Folder   16	4th Wisconsin Infantry officers, Anniston, 1899
Box   4 Folder   17	Anniston, Alabama, 1898
Box   4 Folder   18-19	Camp Douglas, undated
Box   4 Folder   20-21	4th Wisconsin Infantry camp at Camp Shipp, 1898-1899
Box   4 Folder   22	Division Hospital, Camp Shipp, 1898
Box   4 Folder   23	4th Wisconsin Infantry, last parade at Camp Shipp, 1899
Box   4 Folder   24-25	4th Wisconsin Infantry passing in review before Russell A. Algar, Secretary of War, 1898
Box   4 Folder   26	Horace Seaman, undated