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A Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home Friendship

Miss Emma Harper sent this portrait photo postcard to her friend Mamie Cypers at the Iowa Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in May of 1914. This would have been a few months before 18-year-old Emma’s marriage to Clarence Van Auken in Davenport. … Continue reading

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