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Find It All in Florence

Find It All in Florence

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American History: May Anniversaries

American History: May Anniversaries

May 7 – National Day of Prayer USA May 8 – V-E Day 76th Anniversary of the Victory in Europe (1945) May 15 – Armed Forces Day USA May 19 – 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote proposed (1919) May 20 – Abraham Lincoln signs Homestead Act (1862) May 24 – Victoria Day Canada May 31 – […]

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Horse Racing Collectibles —A Winner Down the Stretch

Horse Racing Collectibles —A Winner Down the Stretch

By Robert Reed    The thundering hoofs on race tracks across America also echo the accompanying sound of horse racing collectibles. From programs and postcards to the individual memorabilia of legends like Seabiscuit and Secretariat, the ‘race’ to acquire a ‘bit’ of the horse racing past continues.    It doesn’t hurt that there are more than 90 thoroughbred race tracks in the […]

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Elvis Presley Collectibles for Every Budget

Elvis Presley Collectibles for Every Budget

By Barry Krause    “By the latter part of 1956, there were already hundreds of items that appeared in every department store, drugstore, specialty shop and music store in the country. There were bubble gum cards, pin-back buttons, handkerchiefs, dolls, guitars, billfolds, photograph albums and… you could even buy sideburns from a coin-operated machine,” says the Elvis Presley collectibles section of […]

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Crofut & Knapp, Hat Innovators

Crofut & Knapp, Hat Innovators

Excerpt from the Hatted Professor J. Bradford Bowers    So how does a company go from one man working out of a cow shed to the second largest hat company in America? (They did eventually become the largest, but that wasn’t until after 1970 and the closure of the Stetson factory in Philadelphia.)    The short, and perhaps overly obvious, answer is […]

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