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Description: | Four of the Gesell children in a studio setting in front of a painted backdrop. |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gerhard Gesell, Jr., wearing a baseball uniform. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | One of Gerhard Gesell's daughters (Wilma or Bertha) sitting in a rowboat holding a bouquet of Mississippi River water lilies. She is seated in the stern, t... |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Wilma Gesell in a feathered hat, fur stole and muff. |
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,... |
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Description: | Groups of boys on the Mississippi River shore undressing for a swim. Alma is visible across the river. |
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: | 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. |
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Description: | Two young girls play on a seesaw (teeter totter) in a yard near stacks of fuel wood. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | A view from a hill overlooking the town of Alma, on the banks of the Mississippi River, which is frozen. Several churches and residential houses are visibl... |
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: | 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: | 1890 |
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Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log. |
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: | 1895 |
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Description: | Christmas postcard of 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 ... |
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: | Boys undressing to go swimming in the Mississippi River. Alma, Wisconsin is across the river in the background. |
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Description: | Men, wagons and horses in front of J.F. Meisser's Livery stable. |
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