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| Description: | Quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Thor C. Thompson, [name in the roster is Thomas C. Thompson] a sergeant in Company E, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The ... |
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| Description: | Fire hose cart racing team hitched to a fire hose cart and crouching in set position as if to begin a race. The men were probably firefighters. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An informal head and shoulders portrait of Helen Farnsworth Mears (1872-1916), left, and her sisters Louise Morilla Mears Fargo (1866-1925), center, and Ma... |
| 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: | 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: | 08 1899 |
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| Description: | The Enoch B. Fargo residence shows a two-story Greek revival house with a gable wing with bay window facing the road. There is a full height ell on the lef... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype print of the Lorenzo Dow Fargo Library under construction. Workmen are positioning roof trusses for the Gothic revival building. The stonework... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A seated, full-length portrait in profile of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears (1830-1907), early Wisconsin poet and author whose work was published under the pen... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | 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 thr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A wicker rocker and bentwood side chair flank the bathtub in a bathroom of the Frank Brown Fargo house. There is a hot water heater above the tub in the co... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A photograph bearing the caption "Sleeping Porch off Mother's [Louise (Mrs. Frank) Fargo's] Room" depicts a screened porch with turned balusters and a span... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A highboy dresser, left, and its lowboy counterpart flank the large bay window in Louise Mears Fargo's bedroom. There is an electic wall sconce on either s... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Fargo, center, is squatting down next to her puppy, Mark II. Dorothy is wearing a winter coat and wide brimmed hat and is holding a stick. Five ch... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The three Fargo children, from left, Stuart, Frank Jr. and Dorothy are posing with a toy barn made of wooden boxes. Dorothy is reading a magazine. There is... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A standing, hand-colored three-quarter length portrait of Stuart Fargo. He is wearing a jacket over a shirt with an embroidered design at the neck. A capti... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Stuart Fargo, left, standing with his brother Frank behind their dog, Mark. The boys are wearing large bow ties. Behind them is a folding screen. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A six-year-old Stuart Fargo is posing for a full length portrait dressed as the "New Year" while standing in front of a folding screen. He is wearing a top... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified boys pose in a horse-drawn carriage with a banner above it which reads: "Fargo Bros." The open carriage has an umbrella top and is decorat... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Stuart Fargo poses while sitting on a large rocking horse in front of a folding screen. He is wearing a top hat and striped shirt. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Fargo, ten years old, is holding the hands of her brothers Frank, four years old, and Stuart, seven years old, as they are posing on the sidewalk a... |
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