Monthly Archives: June 2007

The Lembke Tintype

Friday, June 29, 2007

Years ago my grandmother had this in her room. Written over its oval paper mat were (left, middle, right): “Mamie; Uncle Johnny; Mother.” Her mother, Martha Sophie Lembke, was born in October of 1868. Aunt Mamie was not born until 1878. Uncle Johnny, the oldest, was born back in 1864. [...]

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Count Rumford

Friday, June 29, 2007

Here’s an interesting item: Count Rumford’s grant of arms from the English College of Arms:

This is from a fine on-line article on Count Rumford: Allen L. King, “Count Rumford, Sanborn Brown, and the Rumford Mosaic,” Dartmouth College Library Bulletin 35, New Series (1995).
I see this is one of those modern grants taking notice [...]

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