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Fargo Children
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An album page with four mounted photographs is decorated with hand-painted pink flowers and foliage. In the photograph at top right, Louise Mears (Mrs. Frank B.) Fargo is sitting with her infant son Frank on her lap. Daughter Dorothy, left, is sitting in a rocker holding a string of beads. Son Stuart is standing at right with his hand on his baby brother's head. At bottom right, Stuart, age three, and Dorothy, age six, are posing standing in front of a large potted agave plant which is in a planter on the short brick wall behind them. In the photograph at lower left, Dorothy and Stuart, both wearing bib overalls, are posing in front of the family home. At top left, the three Fargo children are posing in front of a folding screen. Dorothy is holding Frank on her lap as Stuart is kneeling on the left.
1900
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Fargo Children at Play
1903
A hand-painted nasturtium bud and leaf decorate an album page with five photographs of the children of Frank and Louise Mears Fargo. At top left, Frank Jr., aged three years, and his sister Dorothy...
Grandmother Mears and Fargo Children
1900
Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears, seated in front of a folding screen, holding her grandson Frank Barber Fargo, age six months, on her lap. Stuart Fargo, age three years, is smiling at the camera. He is ...
The Fargo Children at Play
1908
Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "teaches" six children, including her brother ...
Fargo Family
July 1900
A decorated album page features two photographs of members of the Fargo family posing near the ornate porch of their home. In the photograph on the left, Frank Brown Fargo is sitting in a twig chai...
Fargo Children at Play
1899
An album page decorated with a hand-painted stem of wild geranium flowers features four photographs of Stuart Fargo, age two years, and his sister Dorothy, age five years. At top left, they are fla...
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...
