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Description: | Two horses pull a street waterer. When Main Street was a dirt road, the local merchants paid to have it sprinkled during the summer to keep the dust down. ... |
Date: | 04 06 1899 |
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Description: | Street view showing Alma Milling Co. building on fire. Photograph was taken from Gerhard Gesell's studio balcony. |
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Description: | Gesell children posed with a dog. Arnold is on the right. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | One of Gerhard Gesell's daughters (Wilma or Bertha) sitting in a rowboat holding a bouquet of Mississippi River water lilies. She is seated in the stern, t... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Arnold Gesell and friends at breakfast in California during the time they built a rustic cottage called "Casa Verduga." Box of Corn Flakes is visible at ri... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Two small children in a rural setting with a dog harnessed to a wagon. |
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Description: | Dam in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Note on back of print: "Possibly the mill dam at Waumandeee, Wisconsin flour mill." |
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Description: | Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Small town business district with a group of men and women posed on the board sidewalk on the right. Another group of men and boys are on and around a trac... |
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Description: | Groups of boys on the Mississippi River shore undressing for a swim. Alma is visible across the river. |
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Description: | Two young girls play on a seesaw (teeter totter) in a yard near stacks of fuel wood. |
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Description: | A man with two horses pulling a street waterer down a dirt road. When Main Street was a dirt road, the local merchants paid to have it sprinkled during the... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | A view from a hill overlooking the town of Alma, on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is frozen. Several churches and residential houses are visibl... |
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Description: | Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance. |
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Description: | View from below of wood burning locomotive and single car on elevated railroad bridge and approach trestle, somewhere along the upper Mississippi River. La... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman is holding an umbrella... |
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