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| Description: | A souvenir from a national model airplane competition. A member of Hangar 13 of Beloit, Wisconsin was a contestant in this event and added this item to his... |
| Date: | 07 23 1885 |
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| Description: | Mourning Badge with the image of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of a box produced by The Singer Manufacturing Company, which holds "Costumes of All Nations" souvenir cards, created for the 1893 World's Columbian E... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Front side of a coin made for International Harvester to celebrate the "Reaper Centennial." The event commemorated the one hundred year anniversary of the ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Back side of a coin made for International Harvester to celebrate the "Reaper Centennial." The event commemorated the one hundred year anniversary of the t... |
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| Description: | Button bearing a Christmas tree logo and the slogan "No more shopping days 'til peace." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Holiday card made out of wallpaper. Ivy and berries frame the message which reads: "With a paper shortage at Christmastime, Sort of makes one cross and sur... |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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| Description: | The visionaries: slightly seeing as many improvements as there are egos to reckon with |
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| Description: | Well-scrubbed proprieties, in no danger except the possible over-minding of their own manners or being out-voted by Activists |
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| Description: | Patience we learned and requiem to rest the tense who die For we forgot the brazen earth in courtship of the sky |
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| Description: | The fife and drum are not so innocent the vulture's eye is on the dance |
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| Description: | First-rate minds to write books, guide the young and lead the nation but the target runs close to the ground |
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| Description: | Everybody was wonderful Stars kept rising, pink and gold Trailing threads of breathless music barely out of reach Hand to hand around the n... |
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| Description: | We were promised, we were told that candy came in stripes and boxes But some was stacked, like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes |
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| Description: | Something less than the half of everything is the better, the partner, the woman waiting What counselor, over his shoulder, can count the ways |
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| Description: | The monument is now The place is ripe for building a roll-call of seekers out of the earth For each, his glory is the doing and his dre... |
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| Description: | It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know |
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| Description: | All about, wherever a thought stirred, are the memorabilia of its traces. As it is spoken, so is it written; as it is crucified, so is it grav... |
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