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| Date: | 1897 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1899 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1899 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Four Schildhauers: H., Annie, Rudolph and Edward, sit in a parlor and look at a photo album. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A family posing in an open carriage pulled by a matched team of horses on the shore of Rock Lake near Lake Mills. A handwritten caption identifies the fami... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The facade of the McCormick family residence at 675 Rush Street, which takes up an entire block between Erie and Huron Streets. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. h... |
| Date: | 03 08 1898 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Shaded by a striped canopy, three women are sitting together and smiling in the Holt family backyard. Wearing aprons, the woman on the left and the woman w... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the members of the 11th Wisconsin Volunteers, and some family members, posed on the steps of what appears to be the old Milwaukee County ... |
| Date: | 05 08 1899 |
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| Description: | Looking at the camera, Jeannette Holt is standing next to her aunt May in the backyard of the Holt family home. Minnie May Rumsey is sitting on the hammock... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Families and citizens with horse-drawn wagons gathered in a small town for delivery of McCormick farm machines from General Agent Daniel Klinedinst. Horses... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of exterior of a building used as the Confederate government's Executive Mansion. This was where Jefferson Davis and his family stayed during t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval-framed studio portrait of Hungarian-born actor Alexander Strakosch (1845-1909). Following his noted acting career, Strakosch was a prof... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | The Holt and Stroh families are sitting together on the front steps of the Holts' home. On the left, W.A. Holt is holding his daughter Jeannette with her d... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Standing with the Menominee River in the background, Mary Mathilda Axtell Rumsey and her family posing for a picture. Names from left to right: Mary Mathil... |
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