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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Faville home, built about 1850 on 120 acres bought from the government in 1844. As late as 1922 the home was still in the Faville family. The additions... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Faville home, built about 1850 on 120 acres bought from the government in 1844. As late as 1922 the home was still in the Faville family. The additions... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Public Library in Lake Mills. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Fargo Public Library in Lake Mills. Reverse of cardboard backing reads: "1902, $8000 - Cost, G.B. Ferry, Milwaukee, arch." The library... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men with horses and wagons gathered outside the Faville Grove Farmers' Co-Operative Cheese Factory. A poster advertising the State Fair is pasted to the wa... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An original poem and watercolor paintings of colored maple leaves, all by Louise Mears Fargo, decorate an album page with a photograph of her three childre... |
| Date: | 03 08 1898 |
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| Description: | An album page featuring five circular portraits of Stuart Fargo. At center is a head and (bare) shoulders portrait of him at age eight months. At the four ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A family posing in an open carriage pulled by a matched team of horses on the shore of Rock Lake near Lake Mills. A handwritten caption identifies the fami... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page features a photograph of Stuart Fargo at age two years. He is wearing a nightgown and is barefoot. There is a wicker chair on the le... |
| Date: | 08 1899 |
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| Description: | The Enoch B. Fargo residence shows a two-story Greek revival house with a gable wing with bay window facing the road. There is a full height ell on the lef... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype print of the Lorenzo Dow Fargo Library under construction. Workmen are positioning roof trusses for the Gothic revival building. The stonework... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Lorenzo Dow Fargo Public Library building is partially obscured by trees in this photographic postcard. The stone, Gothic revival building has a centra... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Hand-painted poppies adorn an album page which features a photograph of Stuart, left, and Dorothy Fargo. In the photograph, Stuart is naked and has placed ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | An album page decorated with a hand-painted stem of wild geranium flowers features four photographs of Stuart Fargo, age two years, and his sister Dorothy,... |
| Date: | 09 04 1899 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders photographic portrait of Stuart Fargo is mounted to a hand-painted album page. The watercolor painting is of four stems of blue cornfl... |
| Date: | 07 1900 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page features two photographs of members of the Fargo family posing near the ornate porch of their home. In the photograph on the left, F... |
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