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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Gerhard Gesell photographs and negatives, circa 1875-1950
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| Description: | Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch. |
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| Description: | Five children play in the yard while a young woman watches from the doorway. A boy hangs from a cross bar; a boy rides a rocking horse; two girls sit on a ... |
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| Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A baby lies on the dining table playing with his feet while his mother looks on. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People attending a wedding reception, posing outdoors. They are standing in front of a modern house that has a log cabin attached to the back. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A mother sits with her baby on front steps in the sun surrounded by toys. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking south over Fountain City and river. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A woman poses in front of her log cabin with her dog. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Bertha Gesell washing and hanging doll clothes. |
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| Description: | Two young girls in bonnets standing on a porch facing each other and holding hands. These may be daughters of Gerhard Gesell, the photographer, he often po... |
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| Description: | Two girls seated on a bench outdoors and working inkle looms. |
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| Description: | Six young women posing playfully beneath a bench. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Young woman, possibly a University of Wisconsin student, whittling while seated outdoors on a cellar doorway or bulkhead. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Wilma Gesell, daughter of Gerhard Gesell, stands on a board sidewalk arm-in-arm with a snowman. The snowman holds a Wisconsin pennant. |
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| Description: | "Crazy Man's Castle" near Minneiska, Minnesota. Built of lumber salvaged from Mississippi River log and lumber rafts which occasionally lost some of their ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across field with large haystacks towards a woman sitting in horse-drawn carriage in a farmyard. |
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