Illustrated tally card from the 17th wedding anniversary celebration of the marriage of Bertha Alten and painter Mathias Alten, 1912. The card is punched with 5 holes.

Painter Mathias Alten working on portrait of friend and neighbor Carl Bornecrantz? in his Grand Rapids studio.

Portrait of painter Mathias Alten on picture post card.

Passport photograph of painter Mathias Alten (seated right), Forest Emerson Mann (standing), and an unidentified sculptor (seated left) taken in Seville, Spain.

Portrait of painter Mathias Alten. Photograph is cut and mounted in diamond shape.

Home of painter Mathias Alten on the corner of Fuller and Hope St. in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Portrait of painter Mathias Alten and his daughter Viola.

Portrait of Camelia Alten, daughter of painter Mathias Alten, with her cat.

Family portrait of painter Mathias Alten, his wife Bertha, and daughters Ella, Camelia, and Viola.

Mathias Alten painting model overlooking the Pacific at Laguna Beach, California.

Bertha Schwind Alten, wife of painter Mathias Alten.

Portrait of painter Mathias Alten.

Painter Mathias Alten in his Grand Rapids, Michigan studio.

Mathias Alten and family at the beach in Holland Michigan.

Studio portrait of Bertha Alten and children.

Women gathered around a horse drawn wagon. Image may have been used in Alten painting.

Mathias Alten on the beach.

Mathias Alten in California.

Mathias Alten at family outing.

Mathias Alten painting in his studio.

Newspaper photograph of Mathias and Bertha Alten and Mrs. John Cusick in gondola in Venice Italy. Alten was painting in Italy the summer of 1922.