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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View looking east on Liberty Street from Shore Drive. In the foregound is the F. Bohri & Son Clothing store, and behind it is a store selling "Drugs, Medic... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Alma was platted and settled in 1855, on a narrow strip of land between high bluffs and the Mississippi River. Its location made it a popular shipping cent... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye panorama of Alma, from "An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Buffalo and Pepin Counties." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map over the Mississippi River of Fountain City. Paddle steamers and steamboats are on the river, and bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Mondovi. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking south over Fountain City and river. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Man waving his hat in foreground with Alma, Wisconsin, visible in background across the Mississippi River. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Street with Gesell Photographic Studio, which is built into the side of a bluff, about 1895. His studio was on Main Street from 1877-1903. Miller and Co. L... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View of the Mississippi River from Alma. Caption reads: "Mississippi River. Ice Palace and Cyclone Views." |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Alma along Mississippi River, with bluffs along the horizon. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River, with Alma in the distance, a typical river town which flourished in the 1850s. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Alma from the Mississippi River. Text on front reads: "Wisconsin Scenery". |
| 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: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the upper Mississippi River. The text on the photograph reads: "From Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minn." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | View of Fountain City. The text on the photographs reads: "Principal Depot for Minnesota Views, at Martin's Art Gallery, 264 Third Street, St. Paul" and th... |
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