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0343: Peaco Family Scrapbook, C. 1880 - 1946, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection includes one scrapbook that is mostly composed of newspaper clippings about firemen, firefighting, other local events and local history in Huntington, WV. Less represented in the scrapbook are postcards of fire stations and state capitols from around the United States, a cloth reading “U.S. Registered June 5th, 1917” to signify that Lyle Peaco registered for the draft, two unidentified tintypes, photographs of members of the fire department, other photographs of unidentified people, ephemera such as licenses related to Lyle Peaco, business cards, a court document requesting Peaco to attend, a Barnum Club ribbon, a warrant for the arrest …