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| Date: | 06 1908 |
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| Description: | Crowd near the front of a side show tent with large banners. |
| Date: | 06 1908 |
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| Description: | The Lake Mills band and fire company lead the parade during a fire company competition in their home town. |
| Date: | 06 1908 |
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| Description: | Members of the Lake Mills fire company pull the hose cart during a firemen's competition. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| 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, ... |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A wicker rocker and bentwood side chair flank the bathtub in a bathroom of the Frank Brown Fargo house. There is a hot water heater above the tub in the co... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A photograph bearing the caption "Sleeping Porch off Mother's [Louise (Mrs. Frank) Fargo's] Room" depicts a screened porch with turned balusters and a span... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A highboy dresser, left, and its lowboy counterpart flank the large bay window in Louise Mears Fargo's bedroom. There is an electic wall sconce on either s... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | An album page decorated with hand-painted yellow violets features interior and exterior photographic views of the Frank B. Fargo house. At top left, a phot... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1901 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| 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... |
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