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    The Great Bartholdi Statue Of Liberty (Post)

     "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside th ...

    Halloween - Chapter 1 : “Thys Yere The Towne Of Depe” (Part 1)(Post)

    Halloween is at once the most orange-blooded American and the most other-worldly of holidays. With its roots in the spooky spirit-wanderings of Celtic lands, Halloween was brought to America by I ...

    Napoleon Lajoie, The Definition Of Grace(Post)

    Written upon the Hall of Fame plaque of Napoleon “Larry” Lajoie, it reads “the most graceful and efficient second baseman of his era.” According to all accounts of his contemporaries and others who ...

    The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, And Matilda Joslyn Gage(Post)

    The name of  L. Frank Baum may not carry instant recognition, but his best-known creations, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wizard of Oz, are American cultu ...

    NY Times: Ruth Newman, A Survivor Of The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Dies At 113(Post)

    Ruth Newman, a Survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Dies at 113 ...

    Mark Twain on the Danube(Post)

    Acclaimed novelist, lecturer, humorist, journalist, and travel writer—Mark Twain (1835-1910) received a celebrity’s welcome when he arrived in Vienna in September 1897. Bookstores could not keep u ...

    The American Library Association’s Library War Service(Post)

    “In the ability to reach, educate and affect the adult population the library occupies a position of great responsibility and is a great power for national defense.”  - Charles B. Alexander ...

    Jane Addams, George Pullman, and King Lear(Post)

    The career of Jane Addams (1860-1935) was bracketed by the founding of the Chicago social settlement, Hull House, in 1889, and her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Her list of accomplishme ...

    Information About the Collections(Page)

    AMERICAN MEMORY A great revolution in the history of poster prints was the development of printing techniques that allowed for inexpensive, mass production. The most notable of these, lithography, w ...

    History of the Company(Page)

    History of the Company Historian Michael J. Simpson has written an article On Nostalgia describing the role Snapshots of the Past has played in the growing demand for nostalgic material on th ...

    On Nostalgia - An Essay(Page)

        By Michael J. Simpson, MA History SYNOPSIS: This essay presents an exploration of the evolution of the concept of nostalgia from its inception in the late 17th century to its mo ...

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    I recently purchased a copy of Gen Timothy Ruggles' portrait - Gen Ruggles is my 6th great grandfather. Can you tell me were the original portrait can be found? - D. Tolstrup Whenever I am on the ...

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