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- Bookplate for The Hannah E. Bigelow Fund, Marlborough Public Library, 1898 - Bookplates show ownership, but they can also tell us more. Often pasted on the inside of a book's front cover or endpaper, these printed labels contain the owner's name and sometimes the words "ex-libris" (Latin for "from the library of"). Coats of arms, crests, other decorative images, poems, mottoes, and even font type provide insight into the beliefs, passions, and interests of the book's owner.
- 1898
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Bookplate for The Hannah E. Bigelow Fund, Marlborough Public Library, 1898
Bookplates show ownership, but they can also tell us more. Often pasted on the inside of a book's front cover or endpaper, these printed labels contain the owner's name and sometimes the words "ex-libris" (Latin for "from the library of"). Coats of arms, crests, other decorative images, poems, mottoes, and even font type provide insight into the beliefs, passions, and interests of the book's owner.
- Customers at the Counter inside Lamy's Diner at Its Original Site, Marlborough, Massachusetts, circa 1946 -
- circa 1946
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Customers at the Counter inside Lamy's Diner at Its Original Site, Marlborough, Massachusetts, circa 1946
- Customers at the Counter inside Lamy's Diner at Its Original Site, Marlborough, Massachusetts, circa 1946 - Clovis Lamy stands behind the counter of his diner in Massachusetts. His favorite part of running a diner was talking to his customers.
- circa 1946
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Customers at the Counter inside Lamy's Diner at Its Original Site, Marlborough, Massachusetts, circa 1946
Clovis Lamy stands behind the counter of his diner in Massachusetts. His favorite part of running a diner was talking to his customers.
- Lamy's Diner at Its Original Site in Marlborough, Massachusetts, circa 1946 - This photograph shows Lamy's Diner on its original site in Marlborough, Massachusetts, about 1946. The diner moved three times: first to Framingham, Massachusetts; next to Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1949; and finally to Henry Ford Museum in 1984.
- circa 1946
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Lamy's Diner at Its Original Site in Marlborough, Massachusetts, circa 1946
This photograph shows Lamy's Diner on its original site in Marlborough, Massachusetts, about 1946. The diner moved three times: first to Framingham, Massachusetts; next to Hudson, Massachusetts, in 1949; and finally to Henry Ford Museum in 1984.
- Lamy's Diner, 1946 - World War II veteran Clovis Lamy ordered this 40-seat diner from the Worcester Lunch Car Company, a premier New England diner builder. In April 1946, Lamy operated the diner in his home town of Marlborough, Massachusetts. Local factory workers ate lunch there and those returning from a movie or show dropped in for dinner. Lamy sold the business in 1949.
- 1946
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Lamy's Diner, 1946
World War II veteran Clovis Lamy ordered this 40-seat diner from the Worcester Lunch Car Company, a premier New England diner builder. In April 1946, Lamy operated the diner in his home town of Marlborough, Massachusetts. Local factory workers ate lunch there and those returning from a movie or show dropped in for dinner. Lamy sold the business in 1949.