Let us save what remains not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye ... but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.      Thomas Jefferson 

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1802 Letter to Parents from John Stebbins

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John Stebbins, a 20 year old NYC clerk wrote this melancholy letter to his parents 30 years before his tragic death after a Thanksgiving visit to…

Miss Emma Stebbins, Dog Lover and Talented Artist

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Miss Emma Stebbins, 1815-1882, daughter of Mary Largin Stebbins and John Stebbins, Esq. Sculptress of Angel of the Waters in Central Park, New York…

Elizabeth Marguerite Dixon

Miss Elizabeth Marguerite Dixon

Mrs. Henry A. Clark Sr, born Elizabeth Marguerite Dixon, daughter of Captain James Wyllys Dixon and Frances Stillwell Dixon. She and her 9 siblings…

James Wyllys Dixon family

Family photo of Captain James Wyllys Dixon

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