Ottawa Post Card
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Postcard 1930.
December 28. Iowa becomes the 29th State of the American Union in 1846.
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December 28, 1846. Agricultural advertisement showing the busy and varied activities of the Victorian farming era in the U.S. MidWest, including Iowa.
December 25. At West Point Military Academy the all-night Eggnog Riot rages in 1826.
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December 25, 1826. Santa Claus brings eggnog cheer to all, including frustrated young cadets.
December 22. The Lincoln Tunnel opens in New York City in 1937.
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December 22, 1937. Postcard of vehicles navigating the Holland Tunnel in New York City, circa 1930.
December 21. Benjamin Disraeli is born in 1804.
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December 21, 1804. Tobacco crate label featuring Benjamin Disraeli making a presentation to Britain’s Queen Victoria, circa 1875.
December 16. Bank Robbery dramatically thwarted in Clinton, Indiana in 1930.
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December 16, 1930. Hold up is underway in this chewing gum magazine advertisement from the 1920s.
December 14. Amundsen’s Exploring Team first to reach the South Pole in 1911.
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December 14, 1911. Woolson’s Spice Company uses a midnight sun scene to promote their comestibles, from circa 1890.
December 7. In Gallatin, Missouri, Jesse James robs his first bank in 1869.
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December 7, 1869. Jesse James is the cover boy for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly on April 22, 1882.
December 5. President Polk starts California Gold Rush, announcing the discovery in 1849.
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December 5, 1849. Apple crate label from California, harking back to the good old Gold Rush days one hundred years before.
December 4. Woodrow Wilson Conducts Peace Talks in 1918.
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December 4, 1918. President Woodrow Wilson conducting whirlwind meetings in Paris as part of Peace Talks with Europeans.
December 3. Teddy Roosevelt begins battle against trusts in the State of the Union Address in 1918.
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December 3, 1918. Teddy Roosevelt presented as a prize fighter on this cover of Puck magazine.
December 2. John Brown hanged for attack on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1859.
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December 2, 1859. John Brown is lynched in Harpers Ferry, WV. Lithographic scenes of slavery, from an 1858 sheet music cover.
November 30. At Glasgow England and Scotland play the first international football match in 1872.
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November 30, 1872. Two teams of cats play a football match on a Dutch postcard from the 1930s.
November 27. George Custer leads attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land, 1868.
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November 27, 1868. One panel of a stereo view of the Little Big Horn battlefield in Montana, where Custer met his hubristic end in 1876.
November 26. Thanksgiving Day proclaimed as national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
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November 26, 1863. And what a great holiday it is, this 1910 postcard proclaims.
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