The Buffalo Nickel and its Legends Explained
The article traces the buffalo nickel's retirement age in 1938 and the Jefferson nickel contest. It debunks the Two Guns White Calf myth, explains Fraser's composite portrait, and recounts Iron Tail and Two Moons as claimed originals. It also surveys earlier coin portraits such as the Silver Dollar Girl and Miss Liberty, noting designers and misperceptions.
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Buffalo
The
Henry A. Morgenthau
Thomas Jeferson
Monticello
Two Guns White Calf
Glacier National Park
Smav
Blacknet
James Earl Fraser
Fraser
Iron Tail
Two Moons
Glacier Park
Mr. Fraser
Boke Smith
Western Development
Great Northern Railroad
Chic
Two Guns
White Calf
Glacer 1 Park
Penn
Streightaway
United States
Pattevi
Rockies
Anna Willass Williams
Philadelphia
Goddess of Liberty
George Morgan
Thomas Eakins
Eakins
Anna Wiliams
Miss Wiliams
House of Refuge
Morgan
Miss Williams
House of Refugé
City
So Deter
T Ni
Sheen
Miss Liberty
Phiadelphia
Doris Doscher
Herman AL MacNeil
MacNeil
Augustus Saint Gaudens
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
National Art Jury
Saint Gaudens
Sacred Bundle Restored To Water Buster Clan In New York
Water Buster clan of Gros Ventre Indians regains possession of the Sacred Bundle, a two skull medicine object, in a restoration ceremony led by George G. Heye of the Museum of the American Indian. The relic, once sold to Presbyterian missionaries and later to the Beye foundation, is tied to rain and fertile crops. Foolish Bear and Drags West acted as representatives with Arthur Manden, tribe council chair, accompanying them.
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New York
Dekote
Tom
George G. Heye
Museum of the American Indian
Presbyterian
Beye Foundation
Foolish Bear
Drags West
Arthur Manden
Indians’ Tribe Council
Beye
Fort Berthold
North Dakota
Gros Ventre
Folsom Borough: Proudly Debt Free Since 1906 Growth
The western Atlantic county borough of Folsom, once New Germany, incorporated in 1906, has never issued bonds or debts and maintains a surplus in the treasury. Population 239, area 5,500 acres, centered four miles south of Hamiltonton at crossroads where taverns and a general store anchor commerce.
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Atlantic City
Folsom
Atlantic County
New Germany
Iit
Harmonton
Wough
Birthplace of Johnny Appleseed Traced to Leominster Mass
Henry Bailey Stevens of the New Hampshire extension service identifies Leominster Massachusetts as the birthplace of Johnny Appleseed born Chap man. Chapman traveled the West with a bag of apple seed planting as he wandered.
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Johnny Appleseed
Concord
N. H
Chapman
Leominster
Mass
Henry Bailey Stevens
New Hampshire Extension Service
Man Builds Miniature City in Living Room
Retired Milwaukee golmeker Charles Cole, 68, spent twelve years assembling a miniature city in his Racine living room. More than 100 electrically lighted buildings, many created under magnifying classes, use cigar box wood and glue. The display includes a church with stained glass, a music box, and modeled landmarks such as Grant's Tomb and Wisconsin's Capitol.
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Racine
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Charles Cole
Golmeker
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Cole
Grant
Kansas City
Wisconsin State Capitol
Swankees Introduced For Rainy Day Fashion In LA
Market week in Los Angeles unveils Swankees a new rainy day fashion item by Lloyd Peterson. Marian D Antoni demonstrates the oiled silt pantalets that cover the gap between rain coat and overshoes in a fashion show photograph.
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Los Angeles
Lloyd Peterson
Milady
Marian D’antoni
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Crook
Little Big Horn
Custer
Mackenzie
Dull Knife
Fort Keogh
Mont
Nelson A. Miles
Cheyennnes
Sarah Longacre
Longacre
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CHIEF
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Sky Chief
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Wilson
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Sim Shin
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