With Warm Love and Best Wishes: Repairing an 1886 Holiday Heirloom
During the Christmas season of 1886, a man from New York gave a scrapbook to his cousin in Connecticut. He’d filled the book with printed materials from the era, and […] The post With Warm Love and…
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