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Examples: "King, Marquis Fayette," "Star Photo Company," "Webber, A. L." Searching for a last name only or not enclosing a phrase in quotation marks may give the best results.

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Object Number:
Examples: 16543, 18, 457. Search will return objects of all types (e.g. postcards, stereographs, prints) with that particular number. May add prefix if known, e.g. MHPC.S.8693 for a stereograph or MHPC.PC.1267 for a postcard.

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Examples: Pejepscot Paper Company, 05001441. Official names and ID numbers of National Register resources taken from the National Park Service online database, searchable at https://npgallery.nps.gov/nrhp.