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An archive of objects from the museum collections at Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site that have been previously featured on the site's "Object of the Month" web site.

Minnehaha Falls Stereograph

December 22, 2025 Posted by: David R. Daly

A stereograph produced by Joel Emmons Whitney, showing the frozen Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota, c. 1870.

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Joseph G. Thorp Golf Photographs

September 14, 2018 Posted by: David R. Daly

A series of early 20th century images of Joseph G. Thorp practicing his golf swing.

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