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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of Main Street. Several men and boys are outside of a store with H.A. Olsen printed on the awning. One boy is holding a ball. Th...
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

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
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...
Postcard

Howe's Boat House, Rock Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View down pier towards a boathouse on the shore, with groups of people sitting and standing on the platform in front. A group of people are in a rowboat ne...

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