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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 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...
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Unidentified Woman

Date: 03 08 1852
Description: Two identical ninth plate ambrotypes of an unidentified woman, set into a Mascher's Improved Stereoscope viewing case, patented March 8th, 1852. She wears ...
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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...
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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...
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Lewis Arms' Identification Card

Date: 02 23 1963
Description: The front side of Lewis Arms' Armed Forces identification card, which includes a photograph of Arms.
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons 1896-1908

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Description: Framed assortment of buttons and pins representing the presidential campaigns of William McKinley versus William Bryan (1896-1900), Theodore Roosevelt vers...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1956
Description: Framed assortment of buttons, and a few stamps, representing the presidential election between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in 1956. A few of the ...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons 1912-1924

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Description: Framed assortment of campaign buttons for the presidential elections of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Taft (1912), Woodrow Wilson and Cha...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons 1928 and 1936

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Description: Framed assortment of buttons, pins, and other political ephemera of the presidential elections between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith (1928), and Franklin D. ...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons 1940-1948

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Description: Framed assortment of buttons in support of Wendell Willkie (1940), Thomas Dewey and running mate John Bricker (1944), and Thomas Dewey and running mate Ear...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons 1936-1948

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Description: Framed assortment of presidential campaign buttons. A majority of them support Franklin D. Roosevelt throughout his four terms. A few others support Harry ...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1976
Description: Framed assortment of campaign buttons for Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale, and Gerald Ford and running mate Bob Dole. Most are simple round bu...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1968
Description: Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for Richard Nixon and running mate Spiro Agnew, and Hubert Humphrey and running mate Edmund Muskie. Several...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1972
Description: Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for Richard Nixon and running mate Spiro Agnew, and George McGovern and running mate Sargent Shriver. The c...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1984
Description: Framed assortment of political buttons for Ronald Reagan and running mate George H.W. Bush, and Walter Mondale and running mate Geraldine Ferraro (the firs...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1964
Description: Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for Lyndon B. Johnson and running mate Hubert Humphrey, and Barry Goldwater and running mate William E. Mil...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1960
Description: Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for John F. Kennedy and running mate Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon and running mate Henry Cabot Lodg...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons 1976-1980

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Description: Framed assortment of presidential campaign buttons between Ronald Reagan and running mate George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondal...
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Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 2012
Description: Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden, and Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan. Two of the buttons...

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