1929

Bas relief portrait of German hospital surgeon and gynecological professor at the Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Albert Goldspohn (1853-1929) won international recognition for devising and improving a technique for abdominal surgery and was a frequent contributor to medical…

Man with hair brushed back

Portrait bust of Harlan, Director, Iowa’s State Historical, Memorial and Art Department in the 1920s and 1930s, who arranged some of Petersen’s early Iowa commissions and introduced him to Iowa State College President R. Hughes.

Sac and Fox Native American, son of Jonas Poweshiek.

Portrait bust of Des Moines Register editorial cartoonist.

Bas relief plaque of a man in profile facing left.

Portrait bas relief based on a photograph. Howard Webster Byers (1856-1928) was originally from Woodstock, Wisconsin. He moved to Iowa in 1873 and, beginning in 1888, practiced as a lawyer in Harlan, Iowa. He came to Des Moines as a state representative and eventually…