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Happy Mother’s Day! Thank you for passing your love through the generations. 

Record Group 84: Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State

Series: United States Consular Records for Jerusalem, Palestine

File Unit: [Palestine - Jerusalem - Consulate] Personal Effects of William H. Rudy

Image description: Victorian-era portrait of three people: an older woman with white hair, wearing a black dress and cap; a woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress with light-trimmed ruffles and a high white collar; and a baby with two fingers in his mouth, wearing a long white baby dress, trimmed in lace. 

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“Mother and sister greeting their son and brother after a years absence in France at the reception to 110th Field Artillery on their way to Camp Meade, Md from Washington, DC,” 5/28/1919“Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 -...
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“Mother and sister greeting their son and brother after a years absence in France at the reception to 110th Field Artillery on their way to Camp Meade, Md from Washington, DC,” 5/28/1919

Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985.

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Baby New Year 1973
“ AT CALGGETT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL–WALTER SOLON MOYER III, THE FIRST BABY OF THE NEW YEAR, AND HIS MOTHER, 01/1973
David Hiser, photographer. From the series DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Program to...
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Baby New Year 1973

AT CALGGETT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL–WALTER SOLON MOYER III, THE FIRST BABY OF THE NEW YEAR, AND HIS MOTHER, 01/1973

David Hiser, photographer.  From the series DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, 1972 - 1977

Baby Walter would now be 41 years old.  Happy Birthday!

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