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Stuart at Age Three
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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 standing behind a twisted iron ice cream parlor chair. He is wearing long black stockings and a dress with a broad collar with lace trim. At top left is a seated, waist-up portrait with a three-quarter view of the subject's face. At center is a small circular head and shoulders profile view. Stuart is wearing a bow in his hair in each photograph.
1900
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Stuart Mears Fargo
March 8, 1898
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 sev...
Fargo Children
1900
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 so...
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 ...
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
1902
Hand-painted iris flowers decorate an album page featuring four photographs of Stuart Fargo. In the top two photographs, Stuart is "nearly 5." At left, he is posing outdoors in a white dress with a...
Dorothy and Stuart Fargo
1904
Dorothy Fargo is holding a flower in her right hand and is resting her left hand on her brother's shoulder as they are posing outdoors for a three-quarter length portrait. She is wearing a light-co...
