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      This was the first house in Athens to have a furnace in the cellar and a cistern in the attic. In those days, the residents were slow to accept modern improvements, and Mr. Galliger was told the house would burn down and his cistern would spring a leak and ruin …

      2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sidney Paget (1860-1908), an illustrator closely associated with creating a visual identity for Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes. The lean, elegant Holmes Paget presented to readers of the Strand magazine worked beautifully with Conan Doyle’s text, and formed the basis …

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      This item is a photograph taken on September 15, 1891 of Thomas Hall and his extended family to commemorate his 85th birthday. Thomas emigrated to Canada from England in 1843 and lived near Brantford.

      Image was taken in January 2010

      Picture is of the annual Medical School Dinner List, 1891. Note: Dr. George Wesley Hall’s name listed as first year medical student. A digital copy of this photo was provided by Marylou Hall as part of a presentation on her family.