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Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
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Description: | Bartender couple pose behind bar at Rose's Bright Spot on Highway 35, south of Fountain City. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
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Description: | Two men posing on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River at Fountain City. Fountain Brewery is visible at bottom right. |
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Description: | Three people playing croquet on the banks of the Mississippi River near Alma, Wis. A woman is sitting in a rowboat with a dog nearby in the background. |
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Description: | View across the Mississippi River of Eagle Bluff and Fountain City, with a man in the foreground. The steamer "U.S. Gen. Barnard" is at a landing and a row... |
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Description: | Train station with several men, including one standing atop a large water tower. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Man waving his hat in foreground with Alma, Wisconsin, visible in background across the Mississippi River. |
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Description: | Farmers driving their cattle to a stockyard near the Burlington Depot, a weekly occurrence. |
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Description: | Mule hitched to training cart, with driver, on a town street, possibly Alma. |
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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: | Wisconsin threshing crew, with steam operated tractor, in Buffalo county. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | View of Alma across the Mississippi River, with a man in a rowboat in the foreground. Caption reads: "Alma, Wisconsin, from the Mississippi." |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Arnold Gesell, which includes his autograph. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A Swiss "Schutenfest" club, affiliated with the Central Shooting Society of Wisconsin, started about 1877 and lasted until about 1920. Group of men posing ... |
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: | 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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