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Stuart Mears Fargo
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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 corners are portraits of Stuart at age seven months wearing a long gown with lace trim. The page itself is decorated with watercolor paintings of two stems of Tradescantia (spiderwort) blossoms, painted by Stuart's mother, Louise Mears Fargo.
March 8, 1898
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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).
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...
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...
Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children
August 1901
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 a large plumed hat, is sitting outdoors h...
Stuart at Age Three
1900
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 upper right and lower left show Stuart st...
