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An unfamiliar address on a family photograph or a name in an old school book can be the beginning of
A film costume can preserve more than a familiar screen image. Its child-sized proportions invite us to think about the
It is easy to admire a finished basket without thinking about how its shape was built, strand by strand. A
A family recipe can raise questions that an ingredient list cannot answer. Who taught the cook? Where did the dish
A newspaper records events, but the tools behind it can reveal another kind of history: the work involved in turning
A shoe shop, a business district, and a wartime registration photograph may seem like unrelated subjects. In the Bill Beebe
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