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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Gerhard Gesell photographs and negatives, circa 1875-1950
Filter: Subject of portraits, group
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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: | 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: | 06 1887 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Protz, an unidentified woman (likely Julia Protz), and Clara Tester posing with "schuetzen-rifles." ... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Group of little girls posed wearing nightgowns. Each holds an identically dressed doll and a candle. |
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| Description: | Alma(?), Wis. Studio portrait of group of women seamstresses and two young children. |
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| Description: | Six young women posing playfully beneath a bench. |
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| Description: | Steamer "L.W. Barden" at a landing, with ten men, possibly the boat's crew, on board. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Gesell children. Two boys, Arnold in center, pulling girl in wagon. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Juvenile Coronet Band of Alma, Wisconsin, with boy holding instruments. Arnold Gesell is third from right... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three girls holding hands in a ring (dancing). |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Tableaux of "Martha Washington's Tea Party" enacted by Mrs. Gesell and friends. Left to right: Mrs. Schaettle, Mrs. Kempter, (the younger) Mrs. Fritz Laue,... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A railroad section crew poses with a handcar on the trestle spanning the Buffalo River, north of Alma, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Composite layout combining family portraits with local views. Probably the family of Gerhard Gesell in Alma. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Large group of farm adults and children, probably of German extraction, of one or more families, gathered under fruit trees at the edge of a cornfield, pre... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three farm girls, probably of German extraction, seated on a bench, playing with three kids (young goats) in their laps. There are buildings in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn that they are building. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of magistrates sitting around a table in front of the fire house. Identified (left to right): Edward Funke, William Schuster, David ... |
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