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[1949 Inauguration Event Schedule]

Card with a schedule of events for the 1949 inauguration written on it. The events range from Saturday, January 18 to Thursday, January 23, and include dinners at the Mayflower Hotel and a buffet luncheon at the White House.

Date: [1949-01-18..1949-01-23]

Item Type: Text

[1949 Inauguration Ticket]

Ticket to the 1949 inauguration ceremonies. The ticket reads: "President's Platform. Inauguration Ceremonies. January Twentieth, 1949. Admit the Bearer to the Senate Wing of the Capitol and through the Rotunda Door to the President's Platform" and is signed "Carl Hayden, Chairman, Committee on Arrangements." The back of the invitation is signed "Joseph C. Duke, Sergeant at Arms, U. S. Senate."

Date: January 20, 1949

Item Type: Text

[Birthday Greeting Card]

Birthday greeting card with a red ribbon running through it. The card has a picture of an older woman surrounded with a wreath of flowers, and includes text: "Greetings from 'Mama Sue' on her ninetieth birthday, December 25, 1948."

Date: December 1948

Item Type: Postcard

[Congressional Record Page, Sixty-Third Congress, Third Session]

Congressional Record page from the 63rd Congress, 3rd session. The page includes a speech by Hon. William Kettner of California in the House of Representatives, a letter written by W. R. Hervy, and another letter written by Motley, Hewes Flint, Dana Reid Weller, William Rhodes Hervey, and Samuel E. Burke, all past Grand Masters of Masons. The speech and letters are related to the Los Angeles investigation into "The Alleged Oath or Obligation of the Knights of Columbus."

Date: January 29, 1915

Item Type: Text

[Flower Label from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Sam Rayburn]

Label for flowers sent to Sam Rayburn in honor of his sixtieth birthday from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The label has a picture of The White House and is addressed to "The Speaker of The House of Representatives." At the bottom of the label is text which reads "Perishable flowers. Keep from frost and extreme heat."

Date: January 6, 1941

Item Type: Text

[House of Representatives Envelope]

Envelope with no address and no contents, and the only text being a printed note in the left-hand corner which says: "House of Representatives."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Letter from Cecily N. Kilday to Lou Rayburn - February 11]

Letter from Cecile N. Kilday, Corresponding Secretary for The Congressional Club in Washington D.C., to Miss Lou Rayburn, which expresses thanks to Lou Rayburn for attending the club's Presidential reception.

Date: unknown

Creator: Kilday, Cecile

Item Type: Text

[Letter from Jane Bartley to Medibel Bartley - March 23, 1960]

Letter from Jane Bartley to Medibel (Meddie) Bartley, dated March 23, 1960, in which she writes about her disappointment with her grades and her upcoming participation in the Cherry Blossom Parade. It includes an envelope, postmarked March 24, 1960.

Date: March 23, 1960

Creator: Bartley, Jane

Item Type: Text

[Note from Marguerite]

Small card with a handwritten message: "Thinking of you, With love, Marguerite."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Text

[Photograph of a Woman]

Photograph of an older woman standing outside with bushes and trees around her.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of a Woman with a Baby]

Photograph of a woman with a white bow in her hair wearing a white dress and holding a baby.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

[Photograph of Members of the Rayburn Family]

Photograph with two sides. On the first side is Lucinda Rayburn, and unknown man (possibly S. E. Bartley), and an unknown woman (possibly Medibel Rayburn Bartley) sitting in a fenced grassy yard. On the second side is an unknown man (possibly S. E. Bartley), an unknown woman (possibly Medibel Rayburn Bartley), an unknown woman, Lucinda Rayburn, and another unknown woman all sitting in grass and leaning to the left.

Date: 1918~

Item Type: Photograph