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[Photo of a girl playing guitar]

Description: Photograph of a girl sitting by a window with lacy curtains, playing guitar. Behind her is a wall covered in catalog papers and a calendar. In the corner is a standing mirror. The photo is accompanied by a poem called "Four Maidens".
Date: {1939..1989,1961-11-07}
Creator: Clark, Joe
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[Letter to Hortensia Blanca Mariajiminez from Santiago L. Jaurez]

Description: Letter to Hortensia Blanca Mariajiminez from Santiago L. Jaurez. A large eagle icon is printed next to names and titles that are positioned above a line. Below the line is a title and a date centered above a column of paragraphed text. A signature has been marked below the text column.
Date: December 9, 1939
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006 & Jaurez, Santiago L.
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[Letter from a friend to Pedro J. Gonzalez]

Description: Letter from a friend to Pedro J. Gonzalez. A paper clip sits at the page' stop edge, above a printed date and small block of text. A wider, paragraphed column of text fills the rest of the page and ends above handwritten words.
Date: September 21, 1939
Creator: Parlee, Lorena, 1945-2006
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[Jane Arden Paper Doll]

Description: Clipping from a newspaper with a strip for "Jane Arden's Wardrobe" with illustrations of a woman and several dresses that could be cut out as a paper doll. The reverse includes a portion of the comic strip "Little Mary Mixup."
Date: August 20, 1939
Creator: Barrett, Monte & Ross, Russell E.

[Deceased photograph of Perry Gamble's body, following his suicide by train]

Description: Photograph of Perry Gamble's body, following his suicide by train. Typed on the back of the photograph, "The body of Perry Gamble - On the night of April 23rd, 1939, Perry Gamble left his house one mile north of Foard City at three o'clock in the morning and went to the rail road. The fireman on the train saw him standing beside the track. Just before the train got to him, he throwed his hands up and dove in front of the train. Eleven cards passed over his body. Both hands, both feet and his he… more
Date: April 23, 1939
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