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Silk Mill Relics, 1889

August 17, 2015 448 × 336 A Small Piece of the Past: Relic Hunting and Souvenir Collecting in the 1800s

Assemblage of relics from Grimshaw Silk Mill which was hit by a tornado in 1889

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