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Brand/Photographer: Goth Gesel, Alma, Wisconsin; original 1877 sepia-tone albumen composite portrait photograph titled \'Mitglieder Der Concordia\' featuring the male members of the Concordia society.
Central oval portrait of director J. A. Tesier is framed within a decorative lyre, surrounded by numerous smaller oval head-and-shoulders portraits of named men including C. Moser, L. Kessinger, C. A. Boehme, R. Kempter, Chs. Schaettle, J. Otto, G. Seiler, H. Bechman, and others arranged in concentric rows.
The printed design incorporates banners bearing the names of composers such as Mozart, C. M. Weber, Wagner, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, F. Abt, and Bach, along with faint musical staff notation across the upper margin and ornate German script lettering for the title \'Mitglieder Der Concordia.\'
Lower margin credits Goth. Gesel as artist in Alma, Wis., with the dates 1868 and 1877 printed at the bottom corners to mark the society\'s years, creating a documentary group portrait of German-American musical and social life in late nineteenth-century Wisconsin.
Format: unframed sepia albumen photograph printed on paper and cardboard mount, suitable for framing or inclusion in a collection of nineteenth-century American fraternal and choral organization portraits.
Actual Measurements: ABOUT 10 x 12 in.
