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Carnival Tent

Date: 06 1908
Description: Crowd near the front of a side show tent with large banners.
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Firemen's Parade

Date: 06 1908
Description: The Lake Mills band and fire company lead the parade during a fire company competition in their home town.
Photograph

Fire Company Competition

Date: 06 1908
Description: Members of the Lake Mills fire company pull the hose cart during a firemen's competition.
Photograph

Fire Company Competition

Date: 1908
Description: Formal portrait of the Lake Mills Fire Company preparing for a race in which volunteer companies in harness pulled their fire hose carts. Ralph Engsberg, ...
Photograph

Farmers' Co-Operative Cheese Factory

Date: 1909
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Aztalan State Park Historic Marker

Date: 07 23 1967
Description: Albert Kratch, president of the Lake Mills-Aztalan Historical Society, in front of the Aztalan State Park historical marker. Kratch helped to organize even...
Historical Object

Poem and Watercolor Paintings on Album Page

Date: 1900
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...
Photograph

Three Sisters

Date: 1903
Description: An informal head and shoulders portrait of Helen Farnsworth Mears (1872-1916), left, and her sisters Louise Morilla Mears Fargo (1866-1925), center, and Ma...
Photograph

Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears

Date: 1905
Description: A seated, full-length portrait in profile of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears (1830-1907), early Wisconsin poet and author whose work was published under the pen...
Historical Object

Fargo Family

Date: 07 1900
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...
Photograph

Grandmother Mears and Fargo Children

Date: 1900
Description: Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears, seated in front of a folding screen, holding her grandson Frank Barber Fargo, age six months, on her lap. Stuart Fargo, age thr...
Historical Object

Fargo Children

Date: 1900
Description: An album page with four mounted photographs is decorated with hand-painted pink flowers and foliage. In the photograph at top right, Louise Mears (Mrs. Fra...
Historical Object

Stuart at Age Three

Date: 1900
Description: Four trimmed studio portraits of Stuart Fargo are mounted on an album page decorated with a watercolor painting of three pansy flowers. The photographs at...
Historical Object

Stuart's Valentine

Date: 1901
Description: A commercially printed Valentine's Day card and two photographs are mounted on an album page decorated with hand-painted daisies. The card, labeled "The Fi...
Historical Object

Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children

Date: 08 1901
Description: A photograph of Louise Mears Fargo and her children is mounted on an album page decorated with a hand-painted wild rose. In the photograph, Louise, wearing...
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The Fargo Children

Date: 1901
Description: Five photographs are mounted on an album page which is decorated with a painting of a honeysuckle sprig. In the photograph at top left, Frank, age three, S...
Historical Object

Stuart Fargo

Date: 1902
Description: Hand-painted iris flowers decorate an album page featuring four photographs of Stuart Fargo. In the top two photographs, Stuart is "nearly 5." At left, he ...
Historical Object

Album Page with Cousins

Date: 1903
Description: An album page comprises five photographic prints and a watercolor painting of a shooting star (Dodecatheon) flower. The photograph at lower right was taken...
Historical Object

Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1903
Description: A hand-painted nasturtium bud and leaf decorate an album page with five photographs of the children of Frank and Louise Mears Fargo. At top left, Frank Jr....
Photograph

Children with Puppy

Date: 1904
Description: Dorothy Fargo, center, is squatting down next to her puppy, Mark II. Dorothy is wearing a winter coat and wide brimmed hat and is holding a stick. Five ch...

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