Photographer: Baer
Baraboo, Wis
reverse of the card at the left
Photographer: Baer
Baraboo, Wis
Photographer: Baer
Barraboo, Wis
Photographer: Baer
Barraboo, Wis
Alfred Baer
(1853 - 1934)
Sources: City directories, US and State census,
BarabooPublicLibrary.com, Ancestry.com
Timeline
1853 Feb 07
Horgen, Zurich, Switzerland, Alfred Baer is born to Carl Baer and
Barbara Gattiker
1870
Arrival in the US according to US census 1900 and 1910
1870
Baraboo, WI, US census Alfred Baer at 17, living with Gattiker
family
1873 Mar 04
Janesville (WI) Daily news item says J A Tice has opened a gallery
in Watson’s new block on West Milwaukee street
1875 Nov 17
Janesville (WI) Daily Gazette, news item mentions Alfred Baer is
working at Tice’s gallery; J A Tice was a “photographist” in
Janesville, WI, from about 1870 to 1880
(see Tice timeline at bottom of this page)
1880
Baraboo, WI, (from LacrossHistory.org) Baer worked at William
Lathrop studio, La Crosse, WI; no confirmation on this fact could be
found
1880 May 25
Sauk County, WI, state records, Alfred Baer and Emily Bosshard are
married
1880 Jun 08
La Crosse, WI, US census, Alfred Baer as photographer, living with
in-laws
1880 Oct
Baraboo, WI, Baraboopubliclibrary.com, (see below) Alfred Baer opens
gallery at 323 Oak st
1885 Jun 20
Baraboo, WI, state census, Alfred Baer no occupation shown
1892 Oct
Baraboo, Wi, Baraboopubliclibrary.com (see below) Alfred Baer sells
gallery at 323 Oak to Arthur T Johnson
1895 Jun 03
West Concord, MN, state census, Alfred Baer as photographer (Wife
and three children listed)
1897 Dec 03
Date of naturalization in US
1900 Jun 01
Kenyon, Goodhue, MN, US census, Alfred Baer as photographer; res
Main st
1905 Jun 26
Kenyon, Goodhue, MN, Minnesota Territorial census, as
photographer
1907
Red Wing, MN, city directory Alfred Baer as photographer; NOT listed
in business pages
1909
Red Wing, MN, city directory Alfred Baer as photographer, Opera
House blk, Kenyon; res 3 south of 5th
1910 Apr 25
Kenyon, MI, US census, Alfred Baer as “Own income”; res Forest st
(Baer has probably retired about this year)
1911
Kenyon and Red Wing, MN, city directory, Alfred Baer NOT listed in
res or business section
1924
Red Wing, MN, city directory, under Kenyon, Alf Baer, no address or
occupation shown
1934 Mar 21
Kenyon, MI, state records, Alfred Baer is dead at age 81
There were many references to an Alfred Baer, physician, and an
Alfred Baer, clergyman, but no connection could be made to the
photographer.
No guess on the age of this cabinet card. If further information
turns up it will be added here.
Minneapolis (MN) Star - 11 Feb 1924
Wisconsin State Journal - 03 Mar 1925
Alfred Baer
(Note: there are buttons on both sides of the coat so that it can be buttoned right over left or left over right.)
photographer: ALfred Baer
Baraboo, WI
Examples from the collection of Kay Kirkland Martin, Alfred Baer’s great-great granddaughter.
Note he is wearing the same coat in he photo just above, buttoned left over right.
reverse of card at left
Very faint imprint says:
ALFRED BAER,
PHOTOGRAPHER
EAST SIDE SQUARE
MONROE, WIS.
(actual size 7.5 X 10 inches)
Written on reverse: "Grandpa Baer, about 20 -?"
A note from contributor Kay Kirkland Martin:
"I inherited my personal collection of Alfred Baer’s photographs
from my father, Kenneth Clayton Kirkland, Jr. He is Alfred’s great
grandson. The collection spans the period from 1873 to 1908 and
includes numerous photos of Alfred and his wife Emily Bosshard
Baer, sons Louis and Homer, daughter Gertrude, parents Karl and
Judith Gattiker Baer, and Alfred’s many Baer siblings and their
families. The collection contains examples of photographic work
done in Monroe and Baraboo, Wisconsin, as well as West Concord and
Kenyon, Minnesota."
photographer: Alfed Baer
Baraboo, WI
example from Kay Kirkland Martin
written on reverse of above card
photographer: A Baer
West Concord, MN
example from Kay Kirkland Martin
Baer was in West Concord, MN, in 1885 (see timeline)
A note from Kay Martin to help date the photograph at the
left:
"I wonder if these might be a group of graduating senior girls?
The reason I say this is because the girl pointing to the
butterfly resembles Alfred’s daughter-in-law, Zella Charlton.
Zella later became Louis Baer’s wife. Both Zella and Louis were
born in 1881, and would have been 17 years old In 1898. There’s no
writing on the back of the card. I’m just guessing that it may be
Zella, based on the physical resemblance I see to a later picture
I have of her. Louis and Zella married in 1906."
photographer; Alfred Baer
example from auction site
Really poor scan
Baraboo, WI
example from annonymous contributor
Brief timeline for
Jacob Tice
1876
Janesville, WI, city directory, J A Tice as photographer at 14 W
Milwaukee; res 42 Academy; Jacob Tice Jr also bds at 42 Academy
1884
Janesville, WI, city directory, J A Tice as photographer at 16 W
Milwaukee; res 42 s Academy;
1889
Janesville, WI, city directory Jacob A Tice photographer at 26 W
Milwaukee; res 203 s Academy
1892
Janesville, WI, city directory, J A Tice as photographer at 26 W
Milwaukee; res 203 s Academy
1894
Janesville, WI, city directory, J A Tice as photographer at 18 W
Milwaukee; res 203 s Adams
1903
Janesville, WI, city directory, J A Tice NOT listed; Frances Tice as
widow of Jacob A; res 203 S Academy
photographer: J A Tice
16 w Milwaukee st, Janesville, WI
example from pinterest, no source shown
photographer J A Tice
Janesville, WI
example from auction site
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I am trying to identify the woman in a photo taken by Alfred Baer, Baraboo and wondered if there is a way I could send it to Kay Kirkland Martin to see if by chance there might be a matching photo in her collection.
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