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Studio Portrait of Edgar and Jennie Krueger

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Description: Studio portrait with prop and painted backdrop of Edgar and Jennie Krueger, taken at Matthew Studio.
Postcard

The First Kindergarten in America

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Description: Artist's rendering of an elevated view of the first kindergarten, with children and a teacher gathered in front of the building. There are inset portraits ...
Historical Object

Watercolor Painting on Album Page

Date: 1897
Description: A watercolor painting of an autumn rural scene decorates an album page created by Louise Mears Fargo (1866-1925) to commemorate the birth and early months ...
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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...
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Stuart Mears Fargo

Date: 03 08 1898
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 ...
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Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months

Date: 1899
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...
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Album Page with Pussy Willows

Date: 1899
Description: Two photographs featuring Louise Mears (Mrs. Frank B.) Fargo holding her son Stuart are mounted on an album page decorated with hand-painted pussy willow t...
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Christmas Album Page

Date: 1899
Description: An album page titled Christmas 1899 is decorated with watercolor painted figures. These include a sprig of mistletoe with two berries and the Fargo ...
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Stuart at Bedtime

Date: 1899
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...
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Stuart and Dorothy

Date: 1899
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 ...
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Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1899
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,...
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Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months

Date: 09 04 1899
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...
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...
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...
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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...
Postcard

Lake Mills Concert Band

Date: 1906
Description: Studio group portrait of the Lake Mills Concert Band posing with their instruments; trombones, tubas, clarinets, bass drum, etc. Caption reads: "Lake Mills...
Postcard

Watertown, A City of Stories

Date: 1995
Description: Text on front reads: "Watertown. Willkommen in Watertown. A City of Stories. Watertown, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Front: Watertown, Wisconsin is home to a g...

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