1930

Plaque with two men, bust length, in profile facing left. Honoring founders of Wood Brothers Thresher Company of Des Moines, IA. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Figure or bas relief.

Bas relief portrait of Reimund Baumann (1874-1958), a former judge and governor of the Danish West Indies, Consul-general from 1921-1947 at the Embassy of Denmark, Chicago, IL.

Portrait bust of Chicago architect, former Superintendent of Parks in Dubuque, Iowa, and landscape designer with the Chicago Park District responsible for the Lily Pool at Lincoln Park. Mentored by Jens Jensen.

Bas relief portrait of the daughter of Alfred Caldwell of Chicago, Illinois, shown sitting in a high chair.

Bas relief portrait of Iowa pioneer settler. State of Iowa curator Edgar R. Harlan’s father-in-law.

Bust of Iowa pioneer, scholar, capitalist and philanthropist. Provided initial funding for the Des Moines Arts Center. Portrait done at the request of Edgar R. Harlan.

Tablet of Hadley, second vice-president of Equitable of Iowa Companies, Des Moines, Iowa. Cast by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Portrait bust.

Profile of a little girl with curly hair. Daughter of a Chicago friend of Petersens.

Portrait plaque of Sac and Fox tribal leaders.

Portrait bust or bas relief of Voldeng (1863-1934). Superintendent at several Iowa hospitals, an asylum, and private practitioner in Des Moines, Iowa.

Portrait bust of the United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson and later founder of the Meredith Corporation and editor and publisher of "Successful Farming" magazine. Plaster cast to bronze by Gorham Co. Bronze Division.

Studies for fountain for A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company in Decatur, Illinois. Fountain and reflecting pool were completed in 1930 and destroyed in 1950.

Fountain and reflecting pool. Cast by T.F. McGann & Sons, Boston, MA.

Helen Filkey (DeVry) (1908-2000), who became one of America’s finest track stars in the 1920s, modeled for this bust created in Petersen’s Chicago studio. She was Chicago’s first great female track and field champion, setting national and world records from when she first…