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Photograph of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel following William Price's renovation and expansion.

Marlboro menthol 100s cigarrette package purchased in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 2017.

What appears to be a matchbox cover advertising for Mammy's chicken and waffles on the Steeplechase Pier in Atlantic City. The graphics include large orange and black text and an "Americana" representation of an African American woman, presumably…

An image of the finale of the holiday light show at Wanamaker's Department Store (now Macy's) in Philadelphia, PA.

The Celebrated Trotting Mare Lady Thorn, Formerly "Maid of Ashland."

Lady Thorn, is a bay mare, 16 hands and 1 inch high, raised by Col Wm Dunlap, of Kentucky. She was got by the Famous Horse Mambrino Chief out of a thoroughbred mare : By Gano…

Print showing Abraham Lincoln standing on stage before a ground of people. [N.B.: all metadata taken directly from LOC]

This is a physical object, "[p]rinted in violet ink on yellow....[and] addressed to John Mercer Esq., Coatesville, Pennsylvania". It bears the return address of the Lincoln-Johnson Presidential campaign and its emblematic phrase: "UNION &…

Letter of encouragement for women's suffrage, sent by Susan B. Anthony to one Mrs. Allen, that mentions the Columbian Exposition

On September 21, 1840, someone by the name of Rose, from Rochester, New York penned a letter to her aunt Clara, describing a recent trip to Niagara Falls. In the letter she describes her excursion to both the Canadian and American sides of the Falls…