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Solomon Brown, "Fifty Years To-day," poem commemorating his 50th anniversary (1902) of employment at the Smithsonian Institution, published in 1903

Solomon Brown Poem, "Fifty Years To-day," 1903 - Page 1
Solomon Brown Poem, "Fifty Years To-day," 1903 - Page 2
Solomon Brown Poem, "Fifty Years To-day," 1903 - Page 3
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