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It’s finally summer! Let’s enjoy the warm weather with a nice outdoor activity! This photograph #fromourcollection shows a man sitting on a log in a creek fishing. If you look closely, you can see that he is also smoking a pipe.
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#OTD in 1863, West Virginia is admitted into the Union as the 35th state.
This envelope #fromourcollection shows a printed image of a man (Western Virginia) pulling on the tail of a donkey (Eastern Virginia) to keep him from falling off a cliff. The image refers to the split between the western counties of Virginia and the southern and eastern areas of Virginia in the early 1860s. The donkey is likely a representation of the Southern Democrats who took Virginia out of the Union. Beneath the image is printed “No folly ‘neath the sun surpasses the folly of these suicidal asses!”
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