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* collection of memorabilia from Lincoln ’ s assassination including a lock of Lincoln ’ s hair, a sash from the funeral train, ( the original ) telegram ordering the arrest of John Wilkes Booth, a ticket to that night ’ s production of " Our American Cousin " at Ford's Theatre, a replica of his " life mask ", and a fragment of Mary Todd Lincoln's dress that she wore the night of the assassination
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Ackerman amassed an extremely large and complete collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror film memorabilia, which, until 2002, he maintained in a remarkable 18-room home and museum known as the " Son of Ackermansion.
From his " Acker-mini-mansion " in Hollywood, he had entertained and inspired fans weekly with his collection of memorabilia and his stories.
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds a significant collection of memorabilia relating to Robert Menzies, including a range of medals and civil awards received by Sir Robert such as his Jubilee and Coronation medals, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour and US Legion of Merit.
The building contains a large collection of tennis memorabilia as well as a hall of fame honoring prominent members and tennis players from all over the world.
Featured at Graceland are two of Presley's private airplanes, his extensive automobile and motorcycle collection and other Elvis memorabilia.
The National Library of Canada has preserved a collection of her materials covering the years 1940 to 1983, including manuscripts, typescripts, galleys of published and unpublished works such as La Rivière sans repos, Cet été qui chantait, Un jardin au bout du monde, Ces enfants de ma vie, and La Détresse et l ' enchantement, as well as business and personal correspondence, business records, and memorabilia.
Howerd's home, Wavering Down, is a tourist attraction and, in the summer, hosts concerts and opens regularly as a museum of Howerd's collection of memorabilia and personal effects such as his false teeth and ill-fitting toupee to raise funds for charities.
Irving had concluded that the alleged Hitler diaries were a forgery because they had come from the same dealer in Nazi memorabilia from whom Irving had purchased his collection in 1982.
In 1993 Lily Sun, one of Sun Yat-sen's granddaughters, donated books, photographs, artwork and other memorabilia to the Kapi ` olani library as part of the " Sun Yat-sen Asian collection ".
After Lord died in 2002, he bequeathed to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich his huge collection of manuscripts, original letters and Titanic memorabilia, which he had gathered during his life and used to write A Night to Remember.
Fashioned as a Greek temple high above the James River, it is now the home of Central Virginia's best collection of memorabilia, fine furnishings, costumes and industrial history.
Despite some critical reviews of the structure, the building has been called “ a fitting backdrop for the world's largest collection of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia .” The outside of the building which features a fusion of textures and colors, including gold, silver, deep red, blue and a " shimmering purple haze ," has been declared " an apt representation of the American rock experience.
Beijerinck en Kluyver archive hosts a collection of documents, exhibits and memorabilia of two scientists historically connected with the university.
Fred Widen, a pattern maker for the company, used a portion of the building for his large collection of Collins memorabilia.
The Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum, located in the northern section of Cheshire, holds a large collection of memorabilia, novelties and ephemera such as lunch boxes and Pez dispensers bearing the likenesses of characters from television, cartoons and comics.
The Carnegie Heritage and Arts Center of Greene County is responsible for preserving and maintaining the historic 1908 Margaret Cooper Public Library building ( a Carnegie library ), which also houses the city's Phil Harris and Alice Faye memorabilia collection.
The African American collection is a body of historically significant and current books by and about African Americans and includes papers and memorabilia of such persons as the late Emmett P. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Arthur J. Smith, who was associated with the Far East Consular Division of the State Department.
It houses a large genealogy collection and various artifacts from Chanute's colorful history, including an extensive collection of MKT Railroad memorabilia.
The collection on display contains sports, railroad and aviation memorabilia.
It has a collection of Coke memorabilia and medicine bottles.
It houses the world's largest collection of Audubon memorabilia and one of the most extensive collections of his work.
Restored, today the station is operated as the Depot Museum, displaying a collection of Bernice memorabilia.
The collection of Remington art and memorabilia is based on items from the estates of Eva Remington and her sister Emma.
They have assembled a collection of local memorabilia.
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It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.
Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier.
The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.
How about a rock collection, or a collection of leaves from different trees or shrubs and in different colors??
Dignity and comfort, in a contemporary manner, reflecting the best aspects of today's design, with substance and maturity, keynote the Perennian collection from Heritage.
On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection -- and every single one of them was up for sale.
Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;
Marble, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, from the collection of Cardinal Albani
* Archival collection of America the Beautiful lantern slides from the 1930s.
Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin.
For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.
* Additive manufacturing, a collection of techniques to make objects from 3D data
Area can be defined as a function from a collection M of special kind of plane figures ( termed measurable sets ) to the set of real numbers which satisfies the following properties:
( A collection of 64 essays with many pieces from the Annales — the long introduction is excellent, and contains many good references ).
Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.
Berkeley: University of California Press .... Link to digitized version from the collection of Harvard University
Each issue is a collection of contributions from different authors, often featuring game design discussions, rules variants, write-ups of game sessions, reviews, and comments on others contributions.
The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.
There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.
The Heroninos Archive is the name given to a huge collection of papyrus documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which come from Roman Egypt in 3rd century AD.
The book is a collection of historic and current portrait photographs of figures from the computer industry.
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