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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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A woman poses in front of her log cabin with her dog. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Six young women posing playfully beneath a bench. |
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| Description: | Elevated view across field with large haystacks towards a woman sitting in horse-drawn carriage in a farmyard. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Woman standing on second story porch and boy standing in vineyard behind small residence. A bluff is in the background. |
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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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Alma. The Sherman House is in the left foreground. Houses are above and in the background are bluffs. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of photographer Gerhard Gesell, Sr. and his wife Christine Giesen Gesell taken shortly after their marriage in 1879. She is sitting in a ch... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of Alma from the Mississippi River, with wing dam on right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell sitting in a chair reading an issue of the "Photographic Recorder". |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards four men washing a surrey using metal buckets in front of a stable. A boy wearing a suit, necktie and straw hat is standing behind... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A family, two parents and five children, gathered around a decorated Christmas Tree with gifts underneath. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a house on the banks of the Mississippi River at the base of rocky bluffs. Probably located between Alma and Nelson, along Beef S... |
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