Our photo archivist wanted to pass this amusing photo title found in the collections:

"Unidentified squirrel hunting boy"

(Ms) Allyn Lord
Director
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
118 W. Johnson Ave.
Springdale, AR  72764
479-750-8165; fax 479-750-8693
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www.springdaleark.org/shiloh
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From: Perian Sully [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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My favorite story is from another registrar at another museum. They had,
in their collection, a Christmas bowling game, with the elves as bowling
pins. It was described as "little men with big balls"


Perian Sully
Collection Information and New Media Coordinator
Judah L. Magnes Museum


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Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 6:14 AM
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One of ours is turn-of-the-century silver palm tree w/a real cocnut bowl
affixed. The old cat. card reads in part: "A ghastly piece of Victorian
kitsch."

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