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Countess Elisa Leon wife of Count Leon

Germantown was a utopian colony founded in 1835 in rural Webster Parish near the town of Minden. This photograph shows Elisa Müller ("Countess Leon") wife of the colony's leader Bernhard Müller, self-proclaimed "Count de Leon."

Countess Elisa Leon wife of Count Leon

Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection

Countess Elisa Leon wife of Count Leon. Unidentified

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Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection
Date 1973
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