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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...
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...
Historical Object

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

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

The New Year

Date: 1903
Description: A six-year-old Stuart Fargo is posing for a full length portrait dressed as the "New Year" while standing in front of a folding screen. He is wearing a top...
Photograph

Stuart on Rocking Horse

Date: 1903
Description: Stuart Fargo poses while sitting on a large rocking horse in front of a folding screen. He is wearing a top hat and striped shirt.
Print

Frank Fargo Advertisement

Date: 1904
Description: An advertising card includes a photograph of a man in an open carriage holding the reins of a team of Holstein-Friesian cattle. Two well-dressed men are si...
Historical Object

Album Page with Valentine

Date: 1910
Description: An album page featuring a die cut, chromolithograph Valentine's Day card in the shape of an arrow. The greeting "To My Sweetheart" is printed on the card, ...
Photograph

Off to School

Date: 1904
Description: Dorothy Fargo, ten years old, is holding the hands of her brothers Frank, four years old, and Stuart, seven years old, as they are posing on the sidewalk a...
Photograph

Mark in the Harness

Date: 1905
Description: Mark, the Fargo family dog, has been harnessed to a Coaster wagon and has a bit in his mouth. Frank Fargo is sitting in the front of the wagon holding the ...
Historical Object

Frank B. Fargo Family

Date: 1906
Description: An album page features a collection of family photographs which include head and shoulders studio portraits of Frank B. Fargo and his wife Louise Mears Far...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
Photograph

On the Roof

Date: 02 22 1908
Description: Four children, dressed for cold weather, posing while sitting on the ridge of a roof. They are, from left: Frank Fargo, Florence Anderson, Dorothy Fargo an...
Photograph

Stuart and Frank at Work

Date: 1906
Description: Stuart, left, and Frank Fargo, both dressed in bib overalls, posing in front of the open door of a carriage house. Stuart is wearing a broad brimmed hat. T...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Strawberry Time

Date: 1913
Description: A group of finely dressed men and women posing in a strawberry field. There are buildings in the background. The people are identified in a handwritten ca...
Photograph

Disking

Date: 1917
Description: Stuart Fargo sitting on a disk pulled by a team of four horses on the F.B. Fargo farm.

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