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Photo General Tom Thumb with wife Livinia, Commodore Nutt, and Miss Minnie Warren

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Photo General Tom Thumb with wife Livinia, Commodore Nutt, and Miss Minnie Warren

General Tom Thumb, stage name of Charles S. Stratton (1838-1883), internationally famous through his work for P. T. Barnum. He was...

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Melissa Davenport Berry

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More on Abraham Davenport, Patriot

During the Revolution, Abraham Davenport was a staunch patriot, and served on Connecticut's state committee of safety. He was a man of...

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How Benjamin Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20204 min read

How Benjamin Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters

By Eva M. Kahn (Dec. 2014) Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia printing shop made plaster molds from pressed sage leaves to create metal...

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Melissa Davenport Berry

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Dr. Phelps's Healing Tomato

"Phelps's / Arcanum / Worcester / Mass." Medicine Bottle, a Stoddard glasshouse, Stoddard, New Hampshire (1846-1860) fetched $7,200 at...

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Jonathan Tuttle, 1756-1822, of Connecticut

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Jonathan Tuttle, 1756-1822, of Connecticut

Document in private collection. Receipts submitted for payment by Jonathan Tuttle, October 8, 1789. Seeking research support to verify...

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A Rare Cane with Paper Trail From Abraham Lincoln to Major Ben: Perley Poore of Indian Hill

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

A Rare Cane with Paper Trail From Abraham Lincoln to Major Ben: Perley Poore of Indian Hill

A Cane presented to President Lincoln was one of the relics owned by Major Ben: Perley Poore at his home, Indian Hill Farm in West...

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Commemorating the Services of Irish-American, 1891

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Commemorating the Services of Irish-American, 1891

Commemorating the services of Irish-American valor, loyalty and devotion. Popular and Applied Graphic Art Print Filing Series, Library of...

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Craigie House, Georgia Patriotic DAR Women in 1903

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Craigie House, Georgia Patriotic DAR Women in 1903

From DAR Scrapbook, 6 November 1903. See The Craigie House. Labels: A D McDonald Wilson, Cragie House, Daughters of the American...

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Gun Powder Tea Party in Scituate, Mass., 1956

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Gun Powder Tea Party in Scituate, Mass., 1956

Of course, you’ve heard about the Boston Tea Party, a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston Harbor on 16 December 1773 against the...

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"Modern Apollo": Robert Leslie Pike, Salisbury Mass.

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

"Modern Apollo": Robert Leslie Pike, Salisbury Mass.

Robert Lee Pike (1905-1994), son of Winifred Leslie Pike and Sarah Eliza James; his line is Charles Mace Pike, True Pike Jr., True Pike...

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American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Signature 1866

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Signature 1866

Celebrated American Poet Signature clipped from a letter, "Yours Truly, Henry W. Longfellow." Heritage Collectors' Society Image:...

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USS Kearsarge Cabin Desk of Captain John Winslow

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

USS Kearsarge Cabin Desk of Captain John Winslow

Kearsarge cabin desk was auctioned in 2014, along with with a letter of provenance and several important photographs of Kearsarge...

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Daughter of the American Revolution Had Four Ancestors Who Fought at Bunker Hill

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Daughter of the American Revolution Had Four Ancestors Who Fought at Bunker Hill

No woman was better known in Boston's social circles than Laura Ann (Wentworth) Fowler (1837-1911), wife of Major William F. Folwer....

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1910 Memorial Day Observance near Town Hall and Civil War Monument Winthrop, Massachusetts

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

1910 Memorial Day Observance near Town Hall and Civil War Monument Winthrop, Massachusetts

William H. Clark, History of Winthrop Public Library Archives

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Melissa Davenport Berry

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George Orwell's America

Two First Editions of George Orwell's Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. First American edition. Octavo. 118...

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William Wallace Noyes of Vermont, Medal of Honor

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

William Wallace Noyes of Vermont, Medal of Honor

(Photos from Paul Noyes)

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Melissa Davenport Berry

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Benjamin Apthorp Gould photo

Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr. (1824-1896), son of Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1787-1859) and Lucretia Dana Goddard (1798-1876), married Mary...

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Roxbury, Mass., High School Class, Day Officers, 1907 photo

Melissa Davenport Berry

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Roxbury, Mass., High School Class, Day Officers, 1907 photo

Labels: 1907, Francesca Chaffee, Frank Terhue, Fredrieka Lord, George F Conklin, Guy R Miller, J Leslie Brummett, Roxbury High School,...

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Melissa Davenport Berry

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The Marines Hymn in 1942

Sergeant Alfred Edward Lewis, U.S. Marine Corps and former Washington Post reporter, leaps high into the air in this picture taken during...

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Melissa Davenport Berry

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Albert Sitting Eagle

Albert Sitting Eagle, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on August 12, 1887, and departed on July 4, 1893. The file ...

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