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Bear Brand Teddy Bear

Bear Brand Teddy Bear

This teddy bear was a marketing item for Bear Brand Hosiery Company. Founded in Chicago in 1893 as Paramount Knitting Company . . .

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World War I Poster

World War I Poster

This 1918 World War I poster from France was discovered in a trunk in an old hotel in Eureka Springs (Carroll County). The trunk, which contained posters, army manuals, maps, and letters, had belonged to . . .

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Powwow Souvenir

Powwow Souvenir

In October 1907, Collinsville, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), was the site of an event billed as β€œthe last great powwow before [Oklahoma] statehood.” Hosted by Shawnee chief Henry Spybuck, tribal members . . .

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Handkerchief

Handkerchief

This handkerchief belonged to Alpha Williams, who was born near War Eagle (Madison County) in 1907, the youngest of eight children. The Williams family moved to St. Paul . . .

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Home Legion Medal

Home Legion Medal

In 1944, homemakers across America joined the Betty Crocker Home Legion, an outreach project offered through the Betty Crocker Radio Cooking School. . . .

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Child’s Rocking Chair

Child’s Rocking Chair

This child’s rocking chair first belonged to Netia Burkett Elzey (1888-1965), who lived her whole life near the Madison County community of Marble. . . .

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