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: | 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: | 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 ... |
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,... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn that they are building. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan. |
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 mother sits with her baby on front steps in the sun surrounded by toys. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | A family, two parents and five children, gathered around a decorated Christmas Tree with gifts underneath. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | A group of women are holding hands in a circle around a snowman. The snowman is holding a UW pennant. Identified as: Vera Verhusen (back, left), Mary and E... |
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Description: | A man and a woman sitting on the front steps of a residence. Originally identified as Bertha Gesell and Uncle Christ, but later identified by Peter Gesell ... |
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Description: | Several men and a horse-drawn sled harvesting Mississippi River ice. Alma, Wisconsin is visible in the background. |
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Description: | Group of children playing in a rowboat in a Mississippi River inlet. Alma, Wisconsin is in the background on the opposite shoreline. |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of two boys near a post at the side of two sets of railroad tracks. The boys are watching an oncoming train. On the right is a steep... |
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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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