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"Jewels" found at Alexandria, by the Federal Army; consisting of chains, bracelets, and anklets. Supposed to have belonged to the "First Families" of Virginia / S.C. Upham, 310 Chestnut St.

Picture shows shackles, leg irons and handcuffs. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: Envelope 11; leg and arm slave shackles. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.231)

Wild buffalo, one of America's "first families," at home on a sunny slope, Yellowstone Park, U.S.A.

H44774 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richard Adler Collection

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he's been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families to move into the new war workers' homes in Bantam, the Heaths, who have been married for five years, had previously been living in a furnished room in Torrington. Mrs. Heath formerly lived in Winsted, a town of about 25,000 people just a dozen miles from Torrington. They are proud of their new home and of the comfortable new furniture they bought on the installment plan in Torrington. They have besides the kitchen, a large living room, a modern bath, a medium-sized master bedroom and a smaller room for their three-year-old daughter, Ann

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description