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This is a copy of a drawing by Walton Taber in American Heritage Century
Collection of Civil War Art. A friend of my father is a Civil
War enthusiast, and he gave me this copy, because he knew I collect insulators.
Below also is the text that went with the drawing.
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| Research Division
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I have enclosed some actual size sketches of an item that I
just recently acquired. It appears to be an ashtray or a small bowl. I have
drawn the sketches as if it were a bowl, and for the rest of this letter I will
refer to the item as a bowl. The bowl is made of a hard, black composition-like
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| Foreign Insulators
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| by Marilyn Albers
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Excuses, Excuses!
Dear Readers,
At the time of
this writing there are exactly five days left before my husband and my daughter
and I take off for Europe to be gone for four weeks. We will be traveling with a
group of 18 high school boys and girls under the leadership of Father John Brock
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| Wonders of Man-made Lightning
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There was silence, except for a low hum.
All eyes were glued on two men in the center of the room. One of them stood on
an insulated platform raised a few inches above the concrete floor, and held a cigarette
in his hand. The other, standing on the floor at a spot where a bucket of water
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