The Hilpert family correspondence

Otto & Milly

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    These papers accompany the family correspondence. Their writers and purpose differ from Otto and Milly’s conversation.

    Lona Pitzer and Sigurd Thorlakson’s wedding announcement · May 4, 1918

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