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- Postcard, Girl Holding Puppy, "Here's to the Children," 1905 - Depictions of dogs and puppies often appeared in art and folk art in the United States. Inexpensive lithograph prints made in the mid-19th century emphasized people's relationship with dogs. Starting in the late 1890s picture postcards included these types of popular illustrations of dogs. Sending colorful postcards through the U.S. mail continued to be widespread well into the 1910s.
- 1905
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Postcard, Girl Holding Puppy, "Here's to the Children," 1905
Depictions of dogs and puppies often appeared in art and folk art in the United States. Inexpensive lithograph prints made in the mid-19th century emphasized people's relationship with dogs. Starting in the late 1890s picture postcards included these types of popular illustrations of dogs. Sending colorful postcards through the U.S. mail continued to be widespread well into the 1910s.
- "Colleen Moore's Doll House", 1939-1942 - This cardboard dollhouse kit is a replica of the Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle dollhouse. Moore, a popular silent film actress, had a lifelong fascination with miniatures and commissioned the castle in the late-1920s. It took seven years and $500,000 to complete the dollhouse, which stands nearly nine feet tall and has rooms themed after different fairy tales.
- 1939-1942
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"Colleen Moore's Doll House", 1939-1942
This cardboard dollhouse kit is a replica of the Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle dollhouse. Moore, a popular silent film actress, had a lifelong fascination with miniatures and commissioned the castle in the late-1920s. It took seven years and $500,000 to complete the dollhouse, which stands nearly nine feet tall and has rooms themed after different fairy tales.
- "To Our Heroes," circa 1910 - Beginning in 1868, May 30 was proclaimed "Decoration Day" as a day for mourners to honor the Civil War dead by decorating their graves with flowers. After World War I, the observance became better known as Memorial Day, and it broadened to honor the dead of all America's wars. Memorial Day was declared a national holiday in 1971.
- circa 1910
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"To Our Heroes," circa 1910
Beginning in 1868, May 30 was proclaimed "Decoration Day" as a day for mourners to honor the Civil War dead by decorating their graves with flowers. After World War I, the observance became better known as Memorial Day, and it broadened to honor the dead of all America's wars. Memorial Day was declared a national holiday in 1971.