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Stuart and Dorothy
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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 his hand on the forehead of his older sister. They are seated on an upholstered settee. There is a building and trees in the background suggesting that the photograph was taken outdoors.
1899
Fargo, Louise Mears
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WHi 125014
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Album Page with Pussy Willows
1899
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 twigs. In the upper photograph, Louise is w...
Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months
September 4, 1899
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 cornflower (bachelor's buttons).
Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months
1899
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 left. The photograph has been trimmed to a c...
Watercolor Painting on Album Page
1897
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 of her son, Stuart Mears Fargo (1897-1962)...
Poem and Watercolor Paintings on Album Page
1900
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 children. The children are, from left, Stuart (18...
Frank B. Fargo Family
1906
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 Fargo at bottom left and right, respectively....
