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| 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: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking south over Fountain City and river. |
| 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: | 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." |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the sternwheel steamer "E. Rutledge," owned by Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann's Rock Island Lumber Company, picking up a raft of logs at Be... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Man waving his hat in foreground with Alma, Wisconsin, visible in background across the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Several people posed among farm implements in front of the machinery and insurance business of Gustav Reinhardt and Charles Pelunek (a.k.a. "Bohemian Charl... |
| 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... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Composite layout of Gesell family portraits displayed with peacock feathers photographed in a studio. |
| 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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