Puchta, Randolph E. (1928-2006), Interview, 1998 (C2521)

1 folder and 3 audio cassettes

INTRODUCTION

An interview with Puchta, a resident of Hermann, Missouri. In the interview Puchta discusses his early life, German ancestry, wine making, local customs and leisure activities, and transportation. Of note are his descriptions of photographs from the Edward Kemper Collection at The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia (Accession No. 4633).

The Puchta Interview is one of the many oral interviews done by the State Historical Society of Missouri in an ongoing effort to preserve the state of Missouri’s history.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Randolph Puchta Interview consists of three audio cassettes and an audio log and partial transcription of the interview. There is also a numerically-arranged key to the images of the Edward Kemper Collection.

Individual(s) Interviewed or Recorded:Judge Randolph E. Puchta
Date of Recording:18 Sept 1998
Recordist:C. Ray Brassieur
Tape in Series:3 of 3

General Subject Description: Judge Puchta discusses his early life; German ancestry; education; Korean War service with psychological warfare unit; current wine making operation; Judge Puchta's descriptions referring to Edward Kemper Collection photographic images (Accession no. 4633); turn-of-the-century buildings and landscapes in Hermann area; local people, residential and commercial buildings, grape and wine operations; grain farming and harvest; local customs and leisure activities; transportation.

KEY TO THE EDWARD KEMPER PHOTOGRAHIC COLLECTION

The following is a numerically-ordered descriptive key to the Edward Kemper Collection of photographs (Accession No. 4633). Numbers in italics refer to the catalog numbers of the glass plate negatives in the Edward Kemper Collection. Much of the descriptive information contained in this key derives from a three-hour cassette-taped interview with Judge Randolf E. Puchta of Hermann conducted by Ray Brassieur on 18 September 1998. Judge Puchta is a local historian with abundant knowledge of Hermann and its surroundings. He was reared on a farm adjoining the Edward Kemper farm and he personally knew Edward Kemper very well. The Puchta interview contains a brief review of Judge Puchta's life story as well as his descriptions of and comments about photo images from the Edward Kemper Collection. In this document, only passages of text enclosed in quotation marks are direct transcriptions from the Puchta interview. All other text represents editorial description most of which is based on Judge Puchta's comments. Information provided in bold print identifies the relative location on the cassette tapes where pertinent comments from Judge Puchta may be found. Additional descriptive commentary is provided on the log and partial transcription of Judge Puchta's interview. References to Little Germany on the Missouri, refers to the following source:

Hesse, Anna Kemper, et al. Little Germany on the Missouri: The Photographs of Edward J. Kemper, 1895-1920. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1998.

Photographic Descriptions:

1.1Well-dressed man and woman looking across a river to a town located on the other side; this may be Hermann from the north bank of the Missouri
1.2Horses, mules and people in a corral on unknown farmstead; covered buggy hitched to pair of mules; another buggy visible in the background; family in dressed-up cloths; house and out buildings including a double-pen log corn crib; Puchta says. "The buildings are not neat enough for the Kemper property."
[Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side A]
1.3Inside of a flour mill; four men are sitting on large bags of grain; location is unknown
[Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side A]
1.4Kemper saw mill operation; belt driven circle saw powered by steam engine; this steam engine looks much like the one in Kemper 14.10 and 1.12; the size, fringed top and the smoke stacks are very similar; however, the wheel lugs are different, and there are no water tanks on the rear of this engine; the building in background still exists on the Kemper Farm
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 67; Puchta Interview, Tape 2 of 3, Side B]
1.5Deihl's lumber mill; very large lumber mill operation; looks like pine; location unknown
[Puchta Interview, Tape 2 of 3, Side B]
1.6Mr. Kemper on left holding pair of mules; Brandhorst on right holding another pair of mules; mules are champion quality
[see Kemper 9.2 and 9.3; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 79; Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side A]
1.7Lawn mowing demonstration observed by ten or so people -- infants, youngsters and adults; fine display of period costume
[see Kemper 1.16; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 77; Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side A]
1.8Emil Nagel wagon driver; four-horse-hitch wagon with sawn lumber parked on side of Kemper's planing mill; stacked lumber in foreground; Nagel also had a tavern and a hotel in Hermann; smoke from steam engine-powered saw mill is visible in background
[the building in this photo is described as the packing house for the Hermann Grape Nurseries in Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 65; Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side A]
1.9White horse hitched to buggy; Kemper farm in the background; this appears to be mailman Gustav Fisher
[see Kemper 9.1, 4.2, 4.6, 8.2 ; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 63; Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side B]
1.10Early steam engine and threshing machine; photo probably taken on the Kemper Farm; Kemper house on right edge of photo; thresher is an old "platform" model which did not automatically cut open the bundle, bundles had to be cut open and fed by hand into this thresher from a platform; the steamer is very early also, as indicated by the relatively narrow rear wheels, huge flywheel and unusual smokestack; two-horse-hitch wagon to right of thresher is the "water wagon."
1.11Saw logs and milling scene; logs are rolled down slope to mill; one horse hitched to a set of low, heavy, iron wheels used to drag one end of a log; the steam engine in the background is not the same one pictured in Kemper 1.4, this one has much heavier rear wheels, a barrel-shaped stack, and flywheel on the starboard instead of the port; also, this location is does not seem to be on the Kemper farmstead; location unknown
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 64; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
1.12Threshing scenes on the Kemper Farm; this is the same threshing machine and steam engine shown in Kemper 1.10; two water tanks in the rear of steamer, one on each side, are visible; blower is blowing the straw onto a large pile
[see Kemper 1.10, 14.10; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 68-69; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
1.13Minnesota; woman in a surrey in foreground; stage or platform overlooking a lake in background
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
1.14Kemper family (Edward, Anna and the three girls) posed in picturesque high rocky scene; fall leaves are on the ground
[see Kemper 8.6]
1.15Family scene taken on creek side in front of a large barn; wagons and wagon shed in background; eight individuals in photo -- these are young men and women, and a couple of children
[Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side A]
1.16A lawn mower fitted with a grass catcher designed by Mr. Kemper [ca. 1900]; three men, one holding an infant;
[see Kemper 1.7; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 76; Puchta Interview, Tape 3 of 3, Side A]
2.1Group scene of workers standing in a vineyard; some workers carry bundles of grape cuttings ready to plant; looks like the same group in Kemper 7.7; whiskey jug is present; seven women and eight men visible in photo; photo may have been taken at the edge of a vineyard during grape vine planting
[see Kemper 7.7; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 101; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.2Planting grapes in a new field (stumps visible); a two-horse hitch pulling a plow to cut a furrow; one man with hoe is preparing the fresh furrow for planting; people planting grape vines in the newly prepared furrow; another two-horse hitch is pulling a farm wagon carrying grape vines and supplies; women and men are in this planting scene; women have large sun bonnets and aprons
[see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 97; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.3Planting grapes in a new field (stumps visible); workers aligned along a furrow; three men with hoes, seven women planting vines, one boy hauling vines from farm wagon; water barrel shown near wagon; two-horse-hitch in background
[see Kemper 2.2; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 100; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.4A road way for wagons between rows of grapes. Grapes planted perpendicular to the road. Braced end posts of grape trellises are shown; old frame building located near or in vineyard; man standing on road near buggy and horse team; location unknown
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 94; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.5Mature Aroma grape vines bearing a heavy load of grapes but almost completely defoliated; foliage is generally very heavy at harvest time; Judge Puchta believes that the leaves could have been purposefully stripped to allow sun and air circulation to the grapes, and to insure that the vines' energies went to the grape instead of the foliage
[see Kemper 7.14; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A
2.6Group of men enjoying samples of wine in a wine cellar; two have cigars; one chug-a-lugging wine bottle; one had a siphon hose in his mouth
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
2.7Langendoerfer winery with wine casks in foreground; Langendoerfer developed a white Norton grape which is now extinct; this winery is built in a cave located in the upper east valley of Frêne Creek
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 92; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
2.8Workers dressed in their Sunday best; five women and eleven men and boys in posed group photo
[see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 104; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.9Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with mature vines and some leaves (must be spring); good view in background of painted decorations on gable of Kemper house
[see Kemper 2.10, 2.16, 3.6, 3.16, 4.5, 7.1, 7.15, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
2.10Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with vines but no leaves (must be early spring); woman holding infant to left side of trellis
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.16, 3.6, 3.16, 4.5, 7.1, 7.15, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
2.11(St. Paul choir visiting the Kempers); twenty-six men and women pose in front of Kemper's planing mill on the Kemper farm
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
2.12Mature vines loaded with beautiful grapes of the variety Aroma; leaves show many holes caused by disease or insect infestation
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.13(Press room and wine cellar, temperature always the same); this is located on the old Husmann farm
[see Kemper 6.3, 7.6, 12.1; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 88, 89; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.14Young vineyard with vines being trained to two strands of wire; stems are less than one-foot high; picket fence in background
[see Kemper 14.13; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.15Edward Kemper standing before his planing mill with mature grape roots
[see Kemper 7.9; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
2.16Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with mature vines but no leaves (must be winter)
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 3.6, 3.16, 4.5, 7.1, 7.15, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
3.1A dressed-up couple fishing off of some sort of boat landing protruding into a large creek or a river; location unknown
[see Kemper 3.7 and 9.4; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
3.2Three pretty women in a two-seated surrey pulled by a matched team of dark horses; location unknown
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
3.3Four-horse team hitched to a paneled dray (passenger?) wagon parked near loading platform at a multi-track rail yard; possibly same rail yard as in Kemper 10.6; large water tank but no depot shown; ten or so well-dressed people standing near wagon
[Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
3.4Probably a church group excursion at cave on old Buddemeyer Farm (Judge Puchta's grandmother's maiden name was Buddemeyer; he now owns this farm); located about one & one-half miles from Hermann city limits
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
3.5Lady with parasol posing in front of a Ferris wheel on Market Street
[see Kemper 10.12; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 41]
3.6Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis in background; three men and three women (one seated with a small child); short table is loaded with pot plants (probably young grape vines)
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 2.16, 3.16, 4.5, 7.1, 7.15, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
3.7Six people fishing off of some sort of boat landing protruding into a large creek or a river; location unknown
[see Kemper 3.1 and 9.4; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
3.8A mule and a horse hitched as a team to two-seated covered surrey; house in background; location unknown
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
3.9Eleven women dressed up with fancy hats posing in front of a rural stone church; narrow shuttered windows; it could be the Stolpe's Church, which is near Kemper's farm
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
3.10Sunday afternoon at the Gaeblers's; three women and a boy seated on open patio of Gaebler's house
[see Kemper 9.12; also Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
3.11Family photo taken outside on lawn; shrubs and house plants used for props; one man, three women and two dogs in photo; very tall bird house to far left;
[identified as the Naegelin Family in Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 143; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
3.12Metal truss bridge with approx. two dozen people posing, some with long fishing poles
[? creek bed appears to be dry]; may be the bridge over the Loutre Creek, a few miles north of Hermann
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
3.13Ten or so men and eighteen women in dressed-up costume and holding what looks like fishing poles; this may be the St. Paul's Evangelical Church Choir on a fishing outing; location unknown
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 120; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
3.14Gentleman (possible Edward Kemper) in top hat and long coat standing on bluff
[see Kemper 3.15]
3.15Lady (possibly Anna Kemper) in hat standing on bluff
[see Kemper 3.14]
3.16Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with vines and grapes; woman standing on short table next to man inside grape trellis; girl and boy (on knees) peeking inside of trellis
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 2.16, 3.6, 4.5, 7.1, 7.15, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.1The three Kemper girls with hoes in a developing vineyard; shows young vines probably the year after planting; Anna Kemper Hesse is on far left; Esther is in center; Edna is on far right
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 148; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
4.2White horse hitched to buggy parked in front of Kemper house; Kemper girls and their mother pose in front of spruce tree; this appears to be mailman Gustav Fisher's buggy
[see Kemper 1.9, 9.1, 4.6, 8.2; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 63; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
4.3Laura Stoehr, daughter of Joanna Kemper; young girl with doll standing outside door to a house or store; a cistern and cistern pump shown to right of girl; writing on cistern pump -- "Star Chain Pump, L. H. Oltmann, Gerald, MO"; Oltmann firm still exists as a funeral home today
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.4Young Anna Kemper Hesse standing in front of a Christmas tree in the parlor of the Kemper house
[see Kemper 8.14, 8.15, 8.10; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 146].
4.5Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with vines but no leaves (must be early spring); infant seated in grass in foreground
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 2.16, 3.6, 3.16, 7.1, 7.15, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.6White horse hitched to buggy parked in front of Kemper house; Kemper girls and their mother stand by the buggy; this appears to be mailman Gustav Fisher's buggy
[see Kemper 1.9, 9.1, 4.2, 8.2; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 63; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
4.7Esther and Edna Kemper as little girls in the yard of the Kemper house
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.8Edna Kemper as a toddler on bentwood bench in from yard of Kemper house
[see Kemper 8.9; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.9Girls Christmas Greetings; Kemper girls (left to right, Anna, Esther, Edna) standing in the snow in front of spruce trees during a snow fall; each girl carries a banner on a stick, the banner is inscribed in German
[see Kemper 8.11]
4.10Edward J. (in hat) and Anna Kemper (in background) and their daughters posed amid flowers; Kemper house in background; (left to right) little Anna, Esther, and Edna
[see Kemper 8.12, 8.13]
4.11Kemper children with bundles of grape root stock; the girls are posed standing near Kemper's planing mill with the Kemper house and nursery building in the background
[see Kemper 14.3; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 99; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.12Kemper girls in light dresses pull a child's wagon; wagon is loaded with one sack of grain; a sign attached to the sack is written in English and says something like, "One Bushel of Good Wishes for the New Year 1912"
[see Kemper 8.5, 12.4, 13.11, 14.9; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p.147]
4.13Three Kemper girls (Anna, Edna, Esther) on side of a house in Hermann; St. Paul's Church visible in background; photo includes a dog sitting up and begging; location is probably on Third Street
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.14Edward J. and Anna Kemper and their daughters posed in front of the porch of their house; little Anna is standing on porch, Esther (left) and Edna (right) are standing on the ground; late fall scene
4.15Three girls and a boy posing with a light-colored calf; not the Kemper family; location unknown
[see Kemper 9.14; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.16Kemper girls (Anna, Edna, Esther) seated in front of a spruce tree at the Kemper farm; outbuilding shown in Kemper 8.2 (a) is visible in background
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
4.17Herbert Ulrich, "Mother's Nephew" at First Creek on Gaebler Farm; toddler in straw hat throwing feed to chickens
[see Kemper 12.6 and 14.8; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 73; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.1Magnificent three-story four-square house with hipped roof; lower floor is stone, upper floors are wood frame; man, boy and three dogs at front corner of house; location unknown
[identified as Buschmeyer House in Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 135; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.2Wood frame I-house; man, woman, boy and two small children; two mounted horses and a dog are posed in front of house; a line of rose bushes visible in foreground; location unknown
[identified as Estes House at Drake in Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 132; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.3"Gaebler's" farm; large stone house in background; outbuildings (some log) and ranging chickens in foreground; this is in First Creek area
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 74; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.4Paul Monje place at First Creek; man and woman standing near garden in front of L-house with Queen Anne gable
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 136; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.5Rail fence construction in zigzag pattern in foreground
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
5.6Courthouse and Hermann townscape taken from Church Hill looking east; taken before the bridge was built; Methodist Church building still there today; First Street has not yet been extending up to the church; the alley to the right of the photo provided only access to the church; Deutchheim historical site is visible on the right edge of the photo
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
5.7Bearded man, soap-making kettles and lye soap chunks in a Hermann backyard scene
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 56; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.8Grape pressing, Ed. Kemper on the right; workman on the right in apron; young man in center pouring wine
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.9One man in straw boater hat and two pretty women in a two-seated surrey pulled by a matched team of dark horses; location unknown
[see Kemper 3.2 for another view of the same surrey and team and some of the same people; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.10Old Catholic Church with new steeple; taken from the city park; baseball game in progress; many barns in background showing mixed residential/farming use of town lots
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
5.11Jette (?) Ulrich and daughter; woman and little girl posed with house plants in front of a wood frame house; location unknown
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
5.12Three Kemper girls posed standing in line wearing clusters of grapes draped in front of their dresses; (front to back) Anna (with three clusters), Esther (with two clusters), and Edna (with one cluster)
[see Kemper 11.10, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4]
5.13Two ladies standing in the middle of Market Street; photo taken from corner of Fifth and Market Streets; some of those buildings remain today; street was dirt; wagons on both sides of street
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
5.14This is Kallmeyer's Bluff, on the Husmann property, east edge of Hermann; areas in the photo between the bluff and the railroad is now Hwy 100; that part of the bluff in the photo has been removed to construct the highway; Courthouse and St. Paul's Church steeple are visible in the background; two people standing near railroad track
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
5.16Half-porch rear façade of a two-story wood frame I-house built on stone foundation; windows with jalousie shutters; fancy balusters and Victorian trim on porch; location unknown
6.1Railroad bridge across Gasconade River; about 5.5 miles west of Hermann; this is the location where the 1860s or 1870s bridge collapsed at its dedication killing around 100 people
[see Kemper 6.13 and 12.13; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.2Courthouse (built 1897-98); taken from the west; from the church hill; shows vineyard running right up to the Courthouse on the west side; this is a winter scene; shows First Street to right of photo; large building on First Street no longer standing; smaller building beyond and to right, at the base of the Courthouse, is still standing, it is one of the older buildings (a residence) remaining in Hermann; has just been painted and repaired it
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.3"Teubers from the bluff"; this was the George Husmann farm; east of Hermann on Hwy 100; Husmann was a famous vintner and author of wine making books; Husmann moved to California during the late 19th century and helped develop the wine industry there; small gable-front brick building with a porch in front, located to the right of the center of the photo, had wine cellar below, still standing; this farm is still a working farm now owned by the Kallmeyer family; Joy Kallmeyer is Judge Puchta's brother-in-law; the large barn in this photo is also still standing. The railroad runs along Hwy 100; to the left is what is called Kallmeyer's Bluff; recently part of this bluff was removed to keep rock from falling onto the highway; reference to "Teubers" was unknown to Judge Puchta
[see Kemper 2.13, 7.6, 12.1 see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 56; Puchta interview, end of Tape 1 of 3, Side B; and beginning of Tape 2 of 3, Side A]
6.4Hermann townscape, ca. 1915; St. Paul's UCC church is there (built in 1915), no bridge (built in 1929); photographer was standing on Lone Tree Hill, west of Hermann; engineer Ralph Arnholt [sp.?] has a home built on that hill; photos show extensive vineyards west of town running all the way to the church
[see Kemper 12.11; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 54; Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
6.5Train approaching from the west; Hermann, Mo.; photo taken from east looking west from around corner of Gutenburg and Wharf Streets; Courthouse dome in upper left of photo; First Street is a dirt road but nice brick sidewalk in front of the old White House Hotel
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.6Wharf Street; the boat landing just east and below hill from courthouse; two small stern wheel steamboats shown; a houseboat; railroad siding, coal storage and warehouses; building at the extreme left of photo is known as St. Charles Hall, it was once the high school, once temporary courthouse, now it is a restaurant called "The Landing"; first house down Wharf Street (from left of photo) is gone; second, third and fourth buildings still standing, and the old Whitehouse Hotel at the end of the street exists today; Kallmeyer's Bluff is visible near center of photo
[for comparison see Kemper 6.7 and Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 42; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.7Wharf Street, taken from Courthouse hill (looking east). Some of Heckman boats. One stern-wheeler shown maneuvering a barge near the Hermann dock; three large, pointed-bow wooden barges and one square-bow barge shown; boats and barges were built at Hermann; William Heckman, Sr. was a famous river man, he had six sons who all became river captains; William Heckman, Jr. (Judge Puchta's great-uncle) was a famous captain who died in the 1950s
[for comparison see Kemper 6.6 and Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 42; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.8City Hall built in 1906; snow and sled in park; looking from the north; all of the buildings shown on the left are still standing; building on the right at Market and 2nd Streets is still standing; bandstand built in the 1960s now stands in the park
[see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 40; Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
6.9Railroad Depot at Gasconade, Missouri; photo taken from the east side of the depot; water tank located on west side of depot; depot no longer there
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.10Logs floating on the Gasconade; these logs are not well-organized in rafts, but seem to be floating on the loose
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 66; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.11Gustav Fisher, mail carrier; white horse pulling a covered buggy along a country road
[for Fisher's buggy see Kemper 1.9, 9.1, 4.2, 4.6, 8.2, ; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 63; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
6.12Kemper Homestead; building on the right is Kemper's planing mill building; he planed oak flooring in this building; cattle in the foreground; house and barns also shown; large straw shed is visible to the far left of photo; smaller building to left of barn is no longer in existence; the large barn with a smaller building in front of it both remain today; this smaller building was a specially designed as a manure storage facility, it was conveyed by track from the barn; the white building at the center of the photo was used by Kemper for his vineyard and vine business; the house is to the right of this vineyard building; the planing mill is to the far right
[see Kemper 7.4, 10.13, 10.16; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
6.13Railroad bridge across Gasconade River; about 5.5 miles west of Hermann; this is the location where the 1860s or 1870s bridge collapsed at its dedication killing around 100 people; 6.13 has a skiff and other small boats in foreground
[see Kemper 6.1 and 12.13; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
6.14Gaebler's
[or Gebler's] store and post office; Edna, Esther, Anna Kemper on front porch; building still standing; presently used for private storage; operated as a store into the early 1950s; located on First Creek, about six miles southwest of Hermann
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 62; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
7.1Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with vines and grapes; three men sampling wine, one in center is seated on a short table and box
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 2.16, 3.6, 3.16, 4.5, 7.15, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
7.2Maturing vineyard with vines around two-feet tall which have been trained at least on one wire; photo taken in early spring before the foliage begins to start on the vines
[see Kemper 10.9 and 7.3; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 96; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.3Mature vineyard in full foliage; these vines are trained on three wires; this appears to be the same vineyard shown in Kemper 7.2 and 10.9
[see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 96; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.4"Check rows" of corn on the Kemper farm planted for easy cultivation
[see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 71; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
7.5Wine cellar with large wine casks; Edward Kemper and other men sampling the wine; the end of one barrel is marked "V.S." which stands for "Virginia Seedling"; another barrel shows "Elv." which stands for "Elvira"; Virginia Seedling and Elvira were popular grape varieties at this time in Hermann; long quart bottles shown
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.6Press room and wine cellar; this is located on the old Husmann farm
[see Kemper 6.3, 2.13, 12.1; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 88, 89; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
7.7Group scene of workers; lunch pails are visible; one man is holding what looks like a whiskey jug and others are pointing at him as he drinks from a cup; six women and eight men in photo; photo may have been taken at the edge of a vineyard during grape vine planting
[see Kemper 2.1; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 101; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.8Packaged vines in boxes stacked and ready for shipping; all are mailed from Kemper's company, "Hermann Grape Nurseries"; mailing labels indicate these are going to: Springfield, Mo.; Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Sunset Springs, Mo. (Saline Co.); someplace in Idaho; and Lexington (state unknown)
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
7.9Edward Kemper standing before his planing mill with mature grape roots
[see Kemper 2.15; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.10Edward Kemper as a fairly young man dressed in suit standing among spruce trees
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 2; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.11Edward J. Kemper wearing straw hat and carrying a hoe in vineyard; a white horse with leather collar and harness probably used to cultivate between rows; well-matured vines bearing a heavy grape crop
[see Kemper 7.12; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 103; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.12Edward J. Kemper wearing straw hat and carrying a hoe in vineyard; a white horse with leather collar and harness probably used to cultivate between rows; well-matured vines bearing a heavy grape crop
[see Kemper 7.11; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 103; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.13Family, or multiple family, portrait taken in wooded area; a corner of a tent is visible at the left edge of the photo; eleven individuals pictured -- five men, three women, three children
[see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 98; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.14Mature Aroma grape vines bearing a heavy load of grapes but almost completely defoliated; foliage is generally very heavy at harvest time; Judge Puchta believes that the leaves could have been purposefully stripped to allow sun and air circulation to the grapes, and to insure that the vines' energies went to the grape instead of the foliage
[see Kemper 2.5; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
7.15Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with mature vines but no leaves (must be winter)
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 2.16, 3.6, 3.16, 4.5, 7.1, 9.13, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
8.1Three Kemper girls walking in line wearing clusters of grapes draped in front of their dresses; (front to back) Anna (with three clusters), Esther (with two clusters), and Edna (with one cluster)
[see Kemper 11.10, 5.12, 8.3, 8.4; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 105]
8.2White horse hitched to buggy parked in front of Kemper house; Kemper girls pose in front of spruce tree; this appears to be mailman Gustav Fisher's buggy
[see Kemper 1.9, 9.1, 4.2, 4.6; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 63; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
8.2 (a)Probably Kemper girls (left to right, Esther, Edna, Anna) and one other girls standing in front of outbuilding on the Kemper farm; Edna is holding onto a dark-colored calf; girl to the far right is holding and dog
[see Kemper 4.16 for another view of this outbuilding; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
8.3Three Kemper girls walking in line each carrying a basket full of grape in right hand and a grape cluster in left hand; (front to back) Edna, Esther, Anna
[see Kemper 11.10, 5.12, 8.1, 8.4]
8.4Three Kemper girls in line each will full baskets of grapes at their feet and grape clusters in left hand; (left to right) Edna, Esther, Anna
[see Kemper 11.10, 5.12, 8.1, 8.3]
8.5Kemper girls in winter coats pull a child's wagon loaded with one sack of grain; a sign attached to the sack is written in English and says something like, "A Sack of Good Wishes for the Year 1911"
[see Kemper 4.12, 12.4, 13.11, 14.9; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p.147]
8.6Kemper family (Edward, Anna and the three girls) posed in picturesque high rocky scene; fall leaves are on the ground
[see Kemper 1.14].
8.7[left to right] Mrs. Anna Kemper, her children Anna, Edna, Esther Kemper, and Mr. Edward Kemper seated on a bent wood bench in their front yard
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
8.9Edna Kemper as a toddler on bentwood bench in from yard of Kemper house
[see Kemper 4.8; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
8.10Kemper girls standing near a Christmas tree in the parlor of the Kemper house holding a banner inscribed in German
[see Kemper 4.4, 8.14, 8.15; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 146].
8.11Kemper girls (left to right, Anna, Esther, Edna) standing in the snow in front of spruce trees during a snow fall; each girl carries a banner on a stick, the banner is inscribed in German
[see Kemper 4.9]
8.12Anna Kemper (Hesse) posed amid summer flowers; Kemper house in the background
[see Kemper 4.10]
8.13Kemper girls (left to right, Edna, Esther, Anna) standing amid summer flowers; Kemper house in the background
[see Kemper 4.10, 8.12]
8.14Young Anna Kemper (Hesse) seated with doll in front of a Christmas tree in the parlor of the Kemper house
[see Kemper 4.4, 8.15, 8.10; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 146].
8.15Kemper girls standing near a Christmas tree in the parlor of the Kemper house holding a banner inscribed in German
[see Kemper 4.4, 8.14, 8.10; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 146].
9.1This looks like Gustav Fisher's mail delivery rig, complete with white horse with fly netting hitched to a covered buggy
[compare with Fisher's buggy in Kemper 6.11, 1.9; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 63]; in Kemper 9.1, the buggy is parked in front of a Queen Ann-style country house
[compare to Monje House, Kemper 5.4 and Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 136]; however, in Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 4, this scene is identified as "Courting Anna Gaebler," and the location is given as the residence of Wilhelme Ronneburger Gaebler on Goethe Street in Hermann
[see Kemper 11.1 for another view of same residence; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.2Mr. Kemper on left of "Brass Band" Model-T Ford; the radiator was made of brass; Kemper was the first Ford dealer in the Hermann area; two males (one with brimmed hat is Brandhorst) and two females are seated in the car
[see Kemper 9.3 and 1.6; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 79; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
9.3Mr. Kemper on left of "Brass Band" Model-T Ford; two pair of fine mules
(pair to left of car held by Kemper; pair to right of car held by Mr. Brandhorst); eight people in car and on running boards; Anna Kemper at driving wheel; Anna Hesse is on the port running board
[see Kemper 9.2 and 1.6; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 79; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
9.4Six people fishing off of some sort of boat landing protruding into a large creek or a river; location unknown
[see Kemper 3.1 and 3.7; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.5Large group of men and women fishing; stone foundation of some large ruins at far right edge of the photo; appears to be at Kemper Mill, once known as Widow Tugel's Mill, located on Big Berger Creek
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 57; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.6Large group of men and women in the ruins of Kemper Mill, once known as Widow Tugel's Mill, an early grist mill located on Big Berger Creek, circa 1901
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 57]; Judge Puchta, however, does not know of any large mills of this kind in the Hermann area
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.7Man fishing with a couple of women looking on; nice rail fence in the background; location unknown
[Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.8Infant in the seat of a rattan rocker posed out of doors in front of a balustered porch
[see Kemper 11.15]
9.9A man and a woman sitting in a covered surrey and man standing nearby; matched team of dark horses hitched to surrey; location unknown
[see Kemper 9.10]
9.10Two women sitting in a covered surrey and man standing nearby; matched team of dark horses hitched to surrey; location unknown
[see Kemper 9.9]
9.11Alice Bock in the garden; young lady in hat standing on a brick walk which is bordered by flowers; board and batten shed in the background
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 128].
9.12Family scene on open patio of Gaebler house on First Creek; deer antlers and shotgun on display; wash basin
[see Kemper 3.10; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.13Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with vines and grapes; woman standing on short table next to man inside grape trellis; girl and boy (on knees) peeking inside of trellis
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 2.16, 3.6, 3.16, 4.5, 7.1, 7.15, 14.11; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.14Three girls and a boy posing with a light-colored calf; not the Kemper family; location unknown
[see Kemper 4.15; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
9.15Man in suit standing on the side of road; village (Hermann?) in background
9.16The Bock family pose in their yard on Third Street in Hermann, 1901; trellises supporting flowers and grapes leaning against porch
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 127].
10.1German School with clock tower; Hermann, Missouri
10.2Maifest at the Rotunda; males and females performing a dance with arms extended upward; Rotunda designed by Edward Robyn
[see Kemper 10.17; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 122].
10.4Three stained glass church windows; central window is surmounted by a rose window
10.5Coles Creek School, 4 / 2 / 1912; one-room school built 1874; Edward Kemper and other adults in back row
[see Kemper 10.15; also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 121]
10.6Locomotive belching steam (Engine 329), several rail cars, water tank in background, in a multi-track rail yard; location unknown
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
10.7Early Ford traveling over rough and rocky roads; "Are you a roadbuilder?" written on photo
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 78]
10.8Kemper barn being disassembled in 1912
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 72]
10.9Maturing vineyard with vines around two-feet tall which have been trained at least on one wire; photo taken in early spring before the foliage begins to start on the vines
[see Kemper 7.2, 7.3; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 96; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
10.10Girls performing maypole dance at the Maifest picnic; pole has a traditional North German leafy treetop
[see Kemper 12.8; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p.124]
10.11Statue of Hermann (Armenius), mounted above bandstand; location perhaps New Ulm, Minnesota
[see Kemper 13.2; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 16-17; Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
10.12Two ladies posing in front of a Ferris wheel on Market Street
[see Kemper 3.5; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 41]
10.13Kemper homestead during winter; the snow covered outline of a straw pile, or straw shed is shown to the left of a gabled building, far left in photo
[see Kemper 6.12 and 10.16]; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
10.14Two little boys standing in the tall grass beside a board and batten house; outbuilding in the background; location unknown
10.15Coles Creek School, 4 / 2 / 1912; students and teacher standing in front of one-room school built 1874
[see Kemper 10.5; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 121]
10.16Kemper homestead in winter; a straw pile, or straw shed is shown in far left of photo, left of gabled building
[see Kemper 10.13 and 6.12; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
10.17Maifest at the Rotunda; females performing a dance around one hatted man, all with arms extended upward; Rotunda designed by Edward Robyn
[see Kemper 10.2; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 122].
11.1Residence of Wilhelmine Ronneburger Gaebler (Anna Kemper's mother) located on Goethe Street in Hermann; house is a simple cross-gabled Queen Anne with an L-shaped plan
[see Kemper 9.1; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 4]
11.2Infant in rattan stroller; farm house and out buildings in background
[see Kemper 13.7]
11.3Toddler girl with satchel standing alone on a rock promontory; location unknown
11.4Group of seventeen people (including four men); Edward Kemper family is in this group; possibly at the Kemper farm
11.5A couple fishing in a pond with a long pole; house and outbuildings in background; location unknown
11.6Three men and three women posed seated next to the wall of a stone church; stones are irregular and unfinished; location unknown
11.7Four women posing in the Kemper's front yard
11.8Group of twenty-one individuals (men, women and children) posing in Kemper yard; great examples of men's and women's hats
11.9Kemper homestead with oats standing tall in foreground and farm house and buildings in the background
[see Kemper 6.12, 7.4, 10.13, 10.16; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 140, 71]
11.10Three Kemper girls walking in line wearing clusters of grapes draped in front of their dresses; (front to back) Anna (with three clusters), Esther (with two clusters), and Edna (with one cluster)
[see Kemper 5.12, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 105]
11.11Stacks of wheat awaiting threshing; probably taken in Minnesota; Judge Puchta never saw more than two stacks of this sort in Hermann area; wheat was stacked if thresher coming late; wheat was harvested and stacked so the ground could be worked and re-planted; if left in field, wheat was put into "shocks" (two bundles leaned against each other, six-seven bundles stacked encircling the two in the middle, two bundles broken and placed on top for the cap); during the early 1930s, young men from Hermann area went as laborers to the harvest fields of Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas; many married and stayed
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
11.12Edward Kemper standing in front of picturesque rock wall; location unknown
11.13Lady in fancy hat walking crossing a wooded creek on a foot bridge which has natural wood rails; location unknown
11.14Interior scene of a dining room with a large, fancy pot-bellied stove; table adorned with roses; a man and woman are seated at the dining table (Ed and Anna Kemper ?)
11.15Infant in seat of a rattan rocker posed inside of a house
[see Kemper 9.8]
11.16Kemper cemetery; burial site and monuments of Edward Kemper's parents; located on the Kemper farm
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 8]
12.1Press room and wine cellar; this is located on the old Husmann farm
[see Kemper 6.3, 2.13, 7.6; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 88, 89; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B ]
12.2Hermann townscape, ca. 1915; showing southwest part of town; shows extensive vineyards (darker areas)
[Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
12.3Flooding on Gutenburg Street; brick building in center of photo is the electrical power plant, at the corner of Fourth and Gutenburg; building still there today; tall chimney probably belongs to the shoe factory which is behind the power plant
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
12.4Kemper girls in winter coats pull a child's wagon loaded with one sack of grain; a sign attached to the sack is written in English and says something like, "A Sack of Good Wishes for the Year 1911" [see Kemper 4.12, 8.5, 13.11, 14.9; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p.147]
12.5Hermann townscape; showing west part of town; looking west; some buildings in photo are still standing
[Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
12.6Herbert Ulrich, "Mother's Nephew" at First Creek on Gaebler Farm; toddler in straw hat throwing feed to chickens
[see Kemper 4.17 and 14.8; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 73; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
12.7Church pulpit in the foreground, pipe organ in the background
12.8Girls performing maypole dance at the Maifest picnic; pole has traditional North German leafy treetop
[see Kemper 10.10; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p.124]
12.9Kemper girls on a a porch of a house in Hermann (left to right, Esther, Edna, Anna)
12.10Large Duroc boar eating corn cobs in pig pen
12.11Hermann townscape, ca. 1915; St. Paul's UCC church is there (built in 1915), no bridge (built in 1929); photographer was standing on Lone Tree Hill, west of Hermann; engineer Ralph Arnholt [sp.?] has a home built on that hill; photos show extensive vineyards west of town running all the way to the church
[see Kemper 6.4; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 54; Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
12.12Two male/female couples, two other women, and two children posing in front of the wall of a wood frame church with shuttered, pointed-arch Gothic Revival windows; great men's and women's hats in this photo
12.13Railroad bridge across Gasconade River; about 5.5 miles west of Hermann; this is the location where the 1860s or 1870s bridge collapsed at its dedication killing around 100 people; internal framing of a small skiff shown in foreground
[see Kemper 6.13 and 6.1; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
12.14Railroad Depot at Gasconade, Missouri; photo taken from the west side of the depot
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
13.1The Epple-Stoehr House at the corner of Third and Market, built 1895; this is a front-gabled Queen Anne house
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 129]
13.2Statue of Hermann (Armenius), mounted above bandstand; location perhaps New Ulm, Minnesota
[see Kemper 10.11; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 16-17; Puchta interview, Tape 1 of 3; Side B]
13.3A herd of milk cows in a wire-fenced pasture; location unknown.
13.4Beautiful wooded creek scene; location unknown.
13.5Eight children and an older lady posing in a bedroom; good view of interior features of German houses in Hermann area; location unknown
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 137]
13.6Man with hat (probably Edward Kemper) standing near three heifers in a pasture
13.7Anna Kemper (Hesse) in white dress and leggings standing in front of a stone retaining wall; location unknown but seems to be the same as in Kemper 11.2.
13.8Smaller railroad bridge over Frêne Creek, east of town of Hermann; photo during high water; skiff in right foreground of photo
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side A]
13.9Nine women and girls posing on a rocky slope; looks like the Kemper girls are among them; location unknown
13.10Water rushing from a large square conduit into a small stream; may be an irrigation feature; may be water supply to some sort of water powered mill
[see Kemper 14.14 ]
13.11Kemper girls in light dresses pull a child's wagon; wagon is loaded with one sack of grain; a sign attached to the sack is written in English and says something like, "One Bushel of Good Wishes for the New Year 1912"
[see Kemper 4.12, 8.5, 12.4, 14.9; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p.147]
13.12Luxurious potted fern on a metal plant stand located indoors in what appears to be the bay window of a house
13.13Kemper's hand holding a grape vine ready to plant, or to ship; a wall map of the world is in background of this image; Kemper shipped planting stock all over the world
[see Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 106; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
13.14View of mill or factory taken from the opposite side of a river; location unknown
14.1Probably the Kemper women in a wheat field; this is probably a posed photograph, not an actual harvest scene; the bottom of the bundle of wheat does not appear to have been cut off with a machine; the wheat in the field is still standing; Kemper barn and silo in the background
[Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
14.2Four elk [?] in a fenced area grazing on a hill; location unknown
14.3Kemper children with bundles of grape root stock; the girls are posed standing near Kemper's planing mill with the Kemper house and nursery building in the background
[see Kemper 4.11; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 99; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
14.4Young girl in long white dress holding a cat [?] standing in front of chain link fence covered with vegetation [nasturtiums?]; porch and telephone poles in background
14.5A dozen or so people (ungrouped) in winter coats spread out along the edge of a field; location unknown
14.6Four people standing in the background; a small stream is flowing in the foreground
[see Kemper 13.10, 14.14]
14.7View of Hermann landscape taken from the east
14.8Herbert Ulrich, "Mother's Nephew" at First Creek on Gaebler Farm; toddler in straw hat throwing feed to chickens
[see Kemper 4.17 and 12.6; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p. 73; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
14.9Kemper girls in winter coats pull a child's wagon through the snow; wagon is loaded with one sack of grain; a sign attached to the sack is written in English and says something like, "One Bushel of Good Wishes for the New Year 1912"
[see Kemper 4.12, 8.5, 12.4, 13.11; see also Little Germany on the Missouri, p.147]
14.10Threshing scenes on the Kemper Farm; this is the same threshing machine and steam engine shown in Kemper 1.10; two water tanks in the rear of steamer, one on each side, are visible; blower is blowing the straw onto a large pile
[see Kemper 1.12; Puchta interview, Tape 2 of 3; Side B]
14.11Ed Kemper homestead, Hermann Grape Nurseries; octagonal grape trellis with vines but no leaves (must be early spring); infant seated in grass in foreground
[see Kemper 2.9, 2.10, 2.16, 3.6, 3.16, 4.5, 7.1, 7.15, 9.13; also see Little Germany on the Missouri, pp. 107, 141; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side B]
14.12View of landscape features: fields, hills, trees, river, etc.; location unknown
14.13Young vineyard with vines trained to two strands of wire; stems less than one-foot high; picket fence in background
[see Kemper 2.14; Puchta interview, Tape 3 of 3; Side A]
14.14Water rushing from a large square conduit into a small stream; may be an irrigation feature; may be water supply to some sort of water powered mill
[see Kemper 13.10]

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