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Celebrate autumn with a return to school! Gather up your textbooks and meet your teacher; the Nationaal Archief’s most recent set is a fun look at school days of yore. Doofstommen-onderwijs / Education for the deaf-and-dumb
Schooltijd / School days
The Swedish National Heritage Board offers new scans of ancient monuments. Here is the oldest rune stone in Uppland, from the 6th century A.D., and the only one with the elder rune alphabet. Rune stone, Krogsta, Uppland, Sweden
Ancient Monuments
Make sure to view their idyllic scenes of churches, too. Ingatorp Old Church, Småland, Sweden
Old churches
See marvelous castles in France, courtesy of the Bibliothèque de Toulouse. Entrée du donjon, Penne, octobre 1898
Château
The State Library and Archives of Florida adds to the Erickson Collection; this hot dog stand is true Americana. Lum's hot dog restaurant: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Roy Erickson Collection:
Fort Lauderdale, the Famous and the Familiar,
1969-1981
See more vintage Americana from the other side of the states, courtesy of the Oregon State University Archives. Cheese canning process
Oregon Industries, circa 1940
Check out the The Great Reunion at Gettysburg, July 1913, through the Library of Congress’ Bain News Service photographs. Boy Scouts - Gettysburg
News from the 1910s

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