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Wooden trunk that was brought over from Russia to the United States

This is a photograph of a house purchased next to a creamery and the lot underneath the house. The house was once a dentist office.

On a family trip to their ancestor's hometown, Joe Nigro and his family photographed many sites in Carlentini, Sicily. This photo shows a beautiful staircase inside the city with decorative tiles on each step.

This is a photograph of a decorated church alter.

Declaration of intention for Vincenzo Vacanti. Seal included.

Anna Karel declared that she had been widowed in order to collect her husband's pension in 1920 at the age of 77. In the middle to late nineteenth century, the U.S. Pension Bureau had grown large compared to its pre-Civil War size. It created…

Václav Karel asked for invalid pension on September 13, 1897 at the age of 58 due to rheumatism and disease of the digestive organs, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

After the Civil War the Pension Bureau grew quickly and created bureaucratic…