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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. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Small town business district with a group of men and women posed on the board sidewalk on the right. Another group of men and boys are on and around a trac... |
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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. |
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| Description: | A man with two horses pulling a street waterer down a dirt road. When Main Street was a dirt road, the local merchants paid to have it sprinkled during the... |
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| Description: | Five men ride horses and kick up a cloud of dust along a country road. A small homestead is in the background. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance. |
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| Description: | View from below of wood burning locomotive and single car on elevated railroad bridge and approach trestle, somewhere along the upper Mississippi River. La... |
| 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 ... |
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