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“The Boy Who Killed a Giant” – Florence, Italy (1924)

September 14, 2026 No Comments

Miss Elizabeth Amelia (possibly Aurelia) Murray lived in McAlester, a city and county seat of Pittsburg County in southeast Oklahoma. McAlester grew up around the

Florence Receives the Cathedral in Florence – Malden, Massachusetts (1914)

November 17, 2023 No Comments

Miss Florence Cowles lived in Malden, the city built on a wooded, hilly area on the Mystic River northeast of Boston, Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malden,_Massachusetts In June

“The American Church” in Florence – Italy, circa 1920

December 9, 2022 No Comments

The Rev. Aaron Burtis Hunter and his wife, Sarah Lothrop Taylor, were notable representatives of the Episcopal Church and distinguished for their collecting of antiquarian