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Writing or engraving on the bell are the twelve Apostles around skirt, kneeling cherubs form handle, cross on top. This bell is a replica of the nine ton bell handing in the basilica of St. Peter’s cathedral, Rome, known as the most beautiful bell…

Lost + Found family heirloom found in the NMNH - Anthropology Dept. collections on the Smithsonian Institution website about a Hawaiian feather cape passed down through the Dixon-Welling family. Catalog Number: E128386-0 Specimen…

This photograph from the private family collection is a friendship keepsake of Elizabeth L.C. Dixon and her daughters, Bessie and Clemmie. Written on back of photo: Guests of Gen. Robert O. Tyler at Fairfax Courthouse. Mrs. James Dixon, her…

Civil War Ephemera 1864 Railway Pass to visit Union troops in Virginia

March 26, 1864 Mrs. Elizabeth L. Dixon carried this pass in order to travel from Washington via rail over the Long Bridge to Fairfax Courthouse Virginia, to visit friends and…

Biography: daughter of Sen. James Dixon of Connecticut, Miss Clementine L. Dixon, privately educated by poetess, Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, during the Civil War 1861-1865 volunteered at Armory Square hospital in Washington, D.C, after the Civil War she…

Spring-driven gold watch with cylinder escapement, 1701-1800 by Ellicott, London in pinchbeck inner case and white enamel dial with Arabic & Roman numerals.

Watch: hinged silver back with numbers 252 0120, inner back is mark: "F.S." below small…