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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin C. Bolles (1836-1920), professor of English and American History at Tufts. He is best known for amassing a vast archive o... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Christopher Frost (1806-1880), Vermont botanist. Focused in area of mycology (fungi), especially Eastern North American... |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Joseph Blake (1814-1888), Maine-born reverend, professor and botanist. Published first catalogue of Maine Pl... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Davenport Fisher (1832-1911), Milwaukee chemist. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Heidelberg Unive... |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of Samuel Sterling Sherman (1815-1914), American educator. In 1842, Sherman became president of Howard College in Alabama, which was later ren... |
| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "News from Nowhere," an underground newspaper, featuring a mosaic image of an African American male face. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Dressed in uniform with a Confederate hat, eyeglasses, and a belt with pistols and a sword, a gorilla stands with a rifle in his right hand and a knife is ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Easter postcard with a female rabbit sitting on an Easter egg and a male rabbit standing behind her. Another male rabbit is taking their picture with a cam... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard showing Santa Claus behind the steering wheel of his motorized sleigh. Holly fills the front and pine boughs fill the back. He is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Photo holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Four portraits show the various members of the family, including a dog. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of three children, one boy and two girls, dressed in winter clothes, holding up an enlarged postcard. On the postcard is... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Three photographs show Mom, Dad and daughter. A bow and pine branches decorate the card. The te... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the word "PEACEFUL" embossed seven times on the front (not shown). On the inside, a photograph of a couple is glued in the center. Above ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from the Committee to Defend the Conspiracy. The front is a picture of seven defendants that were under indictment for criminal conspiracy dur... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card with a boy and a girl. He is wearing shorts, jacket, eyeglasses, and a graduation cap. He holds a slate in one hand with the t... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign card. He is shown walking hand is hand with his wife Muriel. On the back are listed his years in public office. |
| Date: | 07 28 1989 |
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| Description: | Don Starky, of Napoleon, Ohio, looks over some of the buttons on display at the American Political Items Collectors Association Convention. Political poste... |
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