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Merry Christmas! 🎄Held in Schlesinger Library | Radcliffe Institute | Harvard University, these three Christmas cards featuring portraits of children are a part of the papers of Mary Frederika Farley, American Red Cross Nurse and the director of the New York Home Nursing Service. Learn more and check out her papers at https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/5361

Today is the 118th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ famous North Carolina flight, which was the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft ✈️Pictured is their patented plan from 1908, held in The Library of Congress and highlighted in a famous Harvard Business School case The Wright Brothers and Their Flying Machines -- check out the case at https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39728

Today is the 248th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, one of the most famous political protests in American history! The protest is memorialized by the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, pictured here in 1986 and located in the middle of Fort Point Channel along Boston Harbor. Have you visited the museum yet? ☕