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Description: | View of the steamboat the "Lion" on the Mississippi River, at sunset. |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Elevated view of people, horses, and wagons gathered in the center of Fountain City to celebrate McCormick Day. Scherer's Hotel is at left. The event was o... |
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Description: | Two bonnetted farm girls sit on a stone wall, apparently cracking nuts. |
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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: | Six young women posing playfully beneath a bench. |
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Description: | Two men posing on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River at Fountain City. Fountain Brewery is visible at bottom right. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Group watching a University of Wisconsin football game (?) from a fence. Most are sitting on top, a few are standing and two men are peeking through the fe... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | A male cheerleader with megaphone leading the crowd at a University of Wisconsin football (?) game. The band performs at the front of the crowd. |
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: | Elevated view of dozens of workers standing on planks and using poles to maneuver logs in Beef Slough, near Alma. |
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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: | A group of Maine commercial fishermen having lunch on a dock. |
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Description: | Two men on an 1,150 foot long swing boom above Alma, which is in the distance on the opposite shoreline. |
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Description: | Several men and a horse-drawn sled harvesting Mississippi River ice. Alma, Wisconsin is visible in the background. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Man waving his hat in foreground with Alma, Wisconsin, visible in background across the Mississippi River. |
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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: | Farmers driving their cattle to a stockyard near the Burlington Depot, a weekly occurrence. |
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Description: | Elevated view of a group of men and boys near the Massasoit Stable. Two of the men are sitting in a buggy. |
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Description: | Mule hitched to training cart, with driver, on a town street, possibly Alma. |
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