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| Date: | 04 06 1899 |
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| Description: | Street view showing Alma Milling Co. building on fire. Photograph was taken from Gerhard Gesell's studio balcony. |
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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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| 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. |
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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: | Dam in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Note on back of print: "Possibly the mill dam at Waumandeee, Wisconsin flour mill." |
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| Description: | Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county. |
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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. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of a mill, sluice and dam on Waumandee Creek. The mill was built by John Oschner in 1863. Two products produced by the mill were White Rose Flour and ... |
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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... |
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