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(ART--FOLK ART.) VARGAS, FRANCISCO [OR] VARGAS JR. Three "Vargas wax figures" of typical New Orleans characters: two women and one man. All three are defective in some way, and are being sold "as is" with all faults. New Orleans, circa 1920's
Born in 1825, Francisco Vargas Sr. was a native of Mexico who arrived in the United States by covered wagon in 1864 and found his way to New Orleans several years later. By 1875, he had set up shop on Royal Street, making wax sculptures, a trade he had learned as a boy from a Jesuit priest.
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