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Young Girls Playing with Dolls

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Description: Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch.
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Juvenile Coronet Band

Date: 1889
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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Gesell Photographic Studio

Date: 1895
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...
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Studio Tableaux of Martha Washington's Tea Party

Date: 1890
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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Betsy's Abode

Date: 1905
Description: A woman poses in front of her log cabin with her dog.
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Steamer "Quincy"

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Description: Steamer "Quincy" of the St. Louis, Davenport, & St. Paul Line in the Mississippi River.
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Train Entering Alma

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Description: CB&N Railroad locomotive entering town. Railroad station in center.
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Signed Arnold Gesell Portrait

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Arnold Gesell, which includes his autograph.
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Mississippi River View

Date: 1902
Description: Hand-colored Mississippi River view with steamboat and rowboat in the river.
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Children Playing on Seesaw

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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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Betimes Betsy Bethinks On The Bible

Date: 1905
Description: Woman reading the bible outdoors while seated in a chair.
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Log-Rolling Contest

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Description: Log-rolling contest with large group of spectators on shore.
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Mule Hitched to Cart with Driver

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Description: Mule hitched to training cart, with driver, on a town street, possibly Alma.
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Mississippi River View and Bluff

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Description: Man standing on bluff with Mississippi River far below in the background.
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Alma, Wisconsin

Date: 1883
Description: Man waving his hat in foreground with Alma, Wisconsin, visible in background across the Mississippi River.
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Cattle Drive In Alma

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Description: Farmers driving their cattle to a stockyard near the Burlington Depot, a weekly occurrence.
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Girls in a Ring

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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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Swimming in the Mississippi River

Date: 1890
Description: View across water towards men and boys swimming and splashing in the Mississippi River. Alma is in the background on the far shoreline.
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Girl Washing Doll Clothes

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit...
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Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.

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