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Baby's First Birthday

Date: 1911
Description: The J. Robert family posed around baby Fred in a high chair with his first birthday cake. Family members are identified from left as Ellen Taylor Higgins,...
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A Christmas Card to My Son

Date: 1911
Description: Holiday card from a parent to a son. It has a gold and brown outer border, with the middle border made of holly and the inner border of gold. Within the in...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1911
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus peering over the top of the roof of a house, and a chimney. He is wearing a red coat and hat with brown fur trim. Above h...
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Cupid's Message

Date: 1911
Description: Valentine's Day card with three layers. The bottom layer is a large blue and white butterfly, and in the lower right is glued a banner with the text: "Cupi...
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To My Valentine

Date: 1911
Description: Valentine's Day card made of four pieces. The main piece is of a large shell boat pulled by two swans on a pond filled with water lilies. A cutout of a lar...
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Christmas Decorations

Date: 1911
Description: Christmas decorations in an office at Dr. Joseph Smith's house. Wrapping paper from opened gifts lie beneath the decorated Christmas tree.
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Man Passing Out Flags on the Fourth of July

Date: 1911
Description: Postcard of a view of a man wearing a straw boater passing out flags to children on the Fourth of July. Text on reverse, "Sane 4th."
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Mac Laren Family Indian Grave

Date: 1911
Description: A dilapidated grave near Mac Laren's Hudson's Bay Company Store and Sturgeon Lake. The coffin is covered with birch bark.
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Medicine Man Cache

Date: 1911
Description: A forgotten Indian cache in poor condition assembled by a Medicine Man. The contents include a green skull cap with a fur band, a tool for scraping hair fr...
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Indian Graves

Date: 1911
Description: Two graves built side by side within a birch branch enclosure. Each grave has an individual wooden fence around it.
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A Meal Together

Date: 1911
Description: A view of a Holt family lunch or dinner on the porch at Island Lodge. W.A. Holt is sitting at the far end of the table, and Lucy Rumsey Holt is sitting at ...

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