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Album Page

Date: 1917
Description: An album page, decorated with hand-painted sweet pea flowers, includes six mounted photographic prints. Enoch B. Fargo (1821-1892), is at top left, and his...
Photograph

Brothers

Date: 1912
Description: Brothers Stuart, left, 15 years old, and Frank Fargo, 12, posing in front of the front porch of the family home. There is a large potted agave on the porch...
Photograph

W-30 Tractor

Date: 01 04 1934
Description: A family looks over a McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor in an International Harvester dealership showroom.
Photograph

Stuart in the Tub

Date: 03 1899
Description: Sunlight through a window highlights the head and shoulders of Stuart Fargo, age 18 months, in a sitz bathtub in the bathroom of the family home. There is ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Minocqua

Date: 1932
Description: Aerial view of Minocqua.
Photograph

Eleanor and Spotty

Date: 05 1912
Description: Sitting on a wooden sawhorse in the backyard, Eleanor Holt is giving a treat to Spotty, the family dog.
Photograph

Pershing and the Troops

Date: 1918
Description: General Pershing inspecting troops in France. Victor Morris, in whose wartime album this photograph appears, may have been the photographer. He identified...
Photograph

Fargo Family and Friend

Date: 02 1918
Description: From left, Frank B. Fargo, Jr. posing with his parents, Louise Mears and Frank B. Fargo, and Edw. Webster near the porch of the Fargo family home. Webster ...
Photograph

Game Warden with Confiscated Deer

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Description: Two men are standing with a dead deer in front of an automobile. The corner of a building is in the background on the right. Caption in album reads: "Phil ...
Photograph

Library at McCormick Mansion

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Description: Ornately decorated library at 675 Rush Street. The house was built for Cyrus Hall McCormick and his family in 1879. After McCormick's death in 1884, the ho...
Photograph

Family Posing around Farmhouse

Date: 1921
Description: View across field towards a family standing on the porch of a farmhouse while a man is standing in the adjacent field with a horse. In the background, clot...
Photograph

McCormick Family Home at Walnut Grove

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper," showing the McCormick family home on location in Walnut Grove. The film was produced by...
Photograph

Front Steps of McCormick Family Home at Walnut Grove

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the front steps of the McCormick family home. The film was produced by Internati...
Photograph

Family Standing in front of Climbing Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Family, including a man, two boys and a girl, standing in front of a farm house and a large climbing plant.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Sid's Family

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of Sid's family: Severt and his mother (?), with Sid in the center, and his younger sister Bernice on the woman's lap.
Photograph

The Schildhauers looking at Photographs

Date: 1897
Description: Four Schildhauers: H., Annie, Rudolph and Edward, sit in a parlor and look at a photo album.
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...
Photograph

La Follette Family Pleasure Cruise

Date: 1907
Description: The La Follette Family in a boat, probably on Lake Mendota, with Gilbert Roe, La Follette's law partner, and his wife. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr.,...
Photograph

Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children

Date: 1914
Description: Louise Mears Fargo (1866-1925) posing for a profile, three-quarter length standing portrait beside the front porch of the family home on Mulberry Street. S...
Photograph

Yahara River Parkway and Lloyd Jones Family Car

Date: 1918
Description: Dick Lloyd Jones stands on the running board of the family car parked along the Yahara River Parkway in Tenney Park. Blig, the family's Belgian Shepherd d...

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