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The Ephemera Collection contains material primarily acquired for teaching. It includes material in various formats, most of which have been previously published. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point.

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Acc. 2009.015 is a commemorative invitation by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to the inauguration of Barack H. Obama and Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on January 20th, 2009.

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Scope and Contents Card game "The New Game of Authors Improved, Illustrated Edition" published by Milton Bradley Co., Springfield Mass. Consist of 72 cards, instruction sheet and front and back cover of box.

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Acc. 2009.261 is a $ 5 bill issued by the Bank of Pittsylvania, Va.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Acc. 2009.307 is a booklet: Songs: Compiled by the Delano Work Camp in 1941. The following description was provided by the seller: "Mimeo format. Plain brown paper covers. 4" x 7" tall. Not paginated. Stamp of Friends Center, Pasadena, California on the front and back cover. 99 different labor songs from many countries including a number of unattributed Woody Guthrie songs." "The Delano Work Camp located at Tulare County, California was the home to many migrant...

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Newsletters, Newspapers, and other printed ephemera.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Includes 2 pocket-size notebooks from the F.S. Roster Guano Co. in Norfolk, Virginia. The following descriptions were provided by the seller: Notebook 1929: "This is a 1929 5 1/2" x 3" blue lined notebook of Green, White and Black. It was put out to advertise F. S. Royster Guano Company located in Norfolk, Virginia. There is a 1929 and 1930 calendar on both the front and back inside cover. The back has a list of Offices and Factories. There is also other information inside...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Ephemera Collection contains material primarily acquired for teaching. It includes material in various formats, most of which have been previously published. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point.

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By Milton Bradley, Springfield, MA. Card game teaching historical events and dates.

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Card game: "Game of Yellowstone, Descriptive of Yellowstone National Park." Copyright 1989 by the Fireside Game Company, Cincinnati, USA.

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Set of 25 John Player & Son tobacco cards illustrating the processing of tobacco from planting to manufacturing.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Ephemera Collection contains material primarily acquired for teaching. It includes material in various formats, most of which have been previously published. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point.

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Scope and Contents Stereoview 86-6881 (Keystone View Co.) shows the shucking of oysters, Oyster Hose, Baltimore, MD. Detailed description on verso. Stereoview 97-20197 (Keystone View Co.) shows a "Mountain of Oyster Shells Used as Bedding for Young Oysters, Hampton, Virginia"

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Consists of a larger set of stereographic photographs created and distributed by the Keystone View Company ca. 1929. Each numbered stereograph has a detailed information on verso: T9 - V23470: On the Deck of an Oyster Boat, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland T71 - 12260: Logs from the Forest Delivered at the Stream, Aroostook Cou7nt, Me. T193 - 20031: Great Chained Log Rafts on the Columbia River, Washington T73 - 22398: Spraying with Arenite of Lead, Truck gardens near Norfolk, Virginia

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Ephemera Collection contains material primarily acquired for teaching. It includes material in various formats, most of which have been previously published. The collection is currently being processed and new items will be added on an ongoing basis. For this reason, the indicated date range is approximate at this point.

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65pp, list indicating names and towns of residence, and in some cases the full address. Names are not in any particular order. Origin of list is unknown.

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Scope and Contents Complete set of 58 cards and two instruction cards for Progressive Chautauqua (3" x 4 ½"). Instruction cards explain rules of play and talk about the advantages of becoming a salesperson for products and publications by the Peoples Book Co. It addresses the young, unemployed, preachers and women. For example: "To ladies thrown on their own resources for livelihood, it offers honorable, independent employment."

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Two pamphlets, August and October from the American Federation of Labor endorsing the presidential candidate from the democratic party, William J. Bryan.

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Published by McLoughlin Bros., New York. Consists of 48 cards for the 48 states showing a map image of each state with bordering state(s) and giving a few facts for each. Includes instruction sheet.

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Includes 4 U.S. Office of Price Administration War Rationing Books Four, issued to members of the McCraw family of Farmville, Virginia.

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Contains travel pamphlets: one is a guide book from Vancouver, Canada, from the 1940s; one is a guide back to the Edinburgh Castle from 1948; and the final is a booklet entitled "Gold Dredging in Sumpter Valley," by Brooks Hawley, and was printed in 1977.

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Printed material from the funeral of Henry Ford II. Gift of Christian Vinyard.

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Brochures for the Princess Anne Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1905, and the George Washington Hotel, in Winchester, Virginia, 1937.

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Includes a postcard of the S. S. Pocahontas, an automobile and passenger transport between Norfolk and the Eastern Shore of Virginia. There is also a postcard depicting the baptism of Pocahontas as well as a postcard of a portrait of Pocahontas.

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Contains ephemera, primarily related to tourism in Virginia. Includes an artistic map of Southwest Virginia, a brochure about apple blossom festivals, a booklet about George Washington's relationship with Fredericksburg, and railroad publications. There is also a booklet from the Virginia Community College System, a pageant program from Charlottesville, a graduation program for three Charlottesville high schools, and a brochure from the Community League of Richmond.