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Memorandum and Account Book

Date: 1845
Description: Diary and account book kept by Nicolaus C. Duerst.
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Autochrome Lumiere Plate Box Cover

Date: 1907
Description: Autochrome Lumiere plate box cover that originally contained four plates (plaques).
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Application for Admission to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home

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Description: Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War.
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Twelve-Panel Vanderbilt List

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Description: Outside of twelve-panel folding "scroll." A master list of 24-8.5 x 11 sheets of handwritten or typed paper, detailing physical or thematic ways to categor...
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Twelve-Panel Vanderbilt List

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Description: Inside of twelve-panel folding "scroll." A master list of 24-8.5 x 11 sheets of handwritten or typed paper, detailing physical or thematic ways to categori...
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Lewis Arms' Identification Card

Date: 02 23 1963
Description: The front side of Lewis Arms' Armed Forces identification card, which includes a photograph of Arms.
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Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: Folded booklet with a head shot of Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States. The inside is printed with Spiro Theodore Agnew's personal and profess...
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Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 1984
Description: A presidential political campaign volunteer recruitment packet and handout papers for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in '84. One item within the packet...
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Threatening Note signed "KKK"

Date: 1957
Description: Threatening note written on a matchbook, signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957 with a rock and rag. The...
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Roxbury Tavern Server's Ticket

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Description: Unused server's ticket from the Roxbury Tavern. There is a drawing of the building in the upper right of the ticket.

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