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The Fargo Children

Date: 1906
Description: The three children of Frank B. and Louise Mears Fargo standing and posing for a full-length studio portrait. They are, from left: Dorothy, age 12 years; St...
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Brothers

Date: 1912
Description: Brothers Stuart, left, 15 years old, and Frank Fargo, 12, posing in front of the front porch of the family home. There is a large potted agave on the porch...
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Playing Tennis

Date: 1912
Description: Dorothy Fargo, holding racquet, and her brother Stuart, are posing with an unidentified woman and two girls in front of a tennis net. The handwritten capti...
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Boating

Date: 1911
Description: Frank B. Fargo, standing on the shore and posing in front of the small launch "Ruth" on Rock Lake. An unidentified man, possibly Charles Millard, is standi...
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Holstein Fresian Picnic

Date: 08 03 1911
Description: Frank B. Fargo of Lake Mills, far right, posing, sitting on a board, with three other well-dressed men at the Holstein Friesian Association Picnic. The oth...
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Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children

Date: 1914
Description: Louise Mears Fargo (1866-1925) posing for a profile, three-quarter length standing portrait beside the front porch of the family home on Mulberry Street. S...
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Louise Mears Fargo

Date: 1914
Description: Helen Mears Fargo (1866-1925) posing while standing in a three-quarter length portrait in front of the porch of the Fargo family home on Mulberry Street. S...
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Aunt Nellie

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait, with Stuart, center, and Frank B. Fargo Jr. posing with their "Aunt Nellie," Helen Farnsworth Mears. The boys are wearing jackets and neckt...
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Aunt Nellie

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of Helen Farnsworth Mears posing with her nephews Stuart Fargo, center, and Frank Fargo Jr. They are reading a book together. Mears is weari...
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Frank B. Fargo

Date: 12 1914
Description: A seated head and shoulders studio portrait of Lake Mills businessman Frank B. Fargo at age 68. He is wearing a suit with vest and necktie with stickpin. T...
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Stuart and Frank Fargo

Date: 1916
Description: Stuart Fargo, left and his younger brother Frank Fargo Jr. pose for a three-quarter length portrait outdoors. Both men are wearing suits, and ties with lap...
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Garage

Date: 08 1917
Description: Vines grow on the walls of a small wood frame building with double doors on the gable end. A sloped concrete slab leads to the doors. A handwritten caption...
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Fargo Family and Friend

Date: 02 1918
Description: From left, Frank B. Fargo, Jr. posing with his parents, Louise Mears and Frank B. Fargo, and Edw. Webster near the porch of the Fargo family home. Webster ...
Historical Object

Fargo Ancestors

Date: 1917
Description: An album page with mounted copies of six photographic portraits of three generations of the Fargo family. They include Robert Fargo (1766(?)-1849), his son...
Historical Object

Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: An album page decorated with a watercolor painting of blue flowers and green stems featuring four views of the Frank B. Fargo house on Mulberry Street. A c...
Photograph

Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: A corner view of the Frank B. Fargo house is centered on the onion-domed polygonal tower. The open, wrap-around two-story porch features paired columns, ba...
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Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: A winter view of the front of the Fargo house on Mulberry Street. It is a two and one-half story cream brick Second Empire Style house with mansard roof. T...
Photograph

Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the side and front of the Second Empire style, two and one-half story cream brick house on Mulberry Street. There is an onion domed tower on the ...
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Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: View from street of Fargo house on Mulberry Street. A hammock and chair are on the open front porch. Foliage obscures the top of the tower on the left, but...
Postcard

West Lake Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across intersection towards a central business district, with a printer, a meat market, and a livery stable. A small crowd is gathered on the sidewalk...

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