Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
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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: | 1880 |
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Description: | Oval studio portrait of Christine Gesell, the photographer's wife, and son Arnold Gesell. Caption on reverse reads "1/2 yr - 1 yr." |
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Description: | Group of twenty-five children posed in front of a 38-star United States flag. One girl holds an African American doll and one boy holds a drum. Note: The 3... |
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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 bonnetted farm girls sit on a stone wall, apparently cracking nuts. |
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Description: | Three girls wade in a lake near Alma while another watches from a pier. A boy fishes from from a boat nearby. |
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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: | 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: | Alma(?), Wis. Studio portrait of group of women seamstresses and two young children. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Boy standing among the wreckage of various farm structures and implements apparently after a wind storm or tornado. |
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Description: | Group of children playing in a rowboat in a Mississippi River inlet. Alma, Wisconsin is in the background on the opposite shoreline. |
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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: | Gesell children posed with a dog. Arnold is on the right. |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two of the Gesell boys in a baseball pose. |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three girls holding hands in a ring (dancing). |
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