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  • Collection: C. V. Boller's Scrapbook

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This guest's ticket was used by C.V. Boller for admission to the Republican National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois on June 19, 1888 in the Chicago Auditorium Building.

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And article written in the Montgomery Ward & Co. newsletter from 1905 about Mr. Boller leaving the company for a job in New York at A. L. Werner & Co.

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One page taken from the program for the production of Ben-Hur when performed at the Illinois Theatre in Chicago, Illinois in the Fall of 1901.

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Photo taken in 2015 by April Lynne Earle of 70 Guy Lombardo Avenue, formerly Grove Street, Freeport, Long Island, New York, where Mr. Boller's tailoring company, C.V. Boller Co., was located from about 1915 to the late 1940s.

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Photo taken in 2015 by April Lynne Earle of 180 Whaley Street, Freeport, Long Island, New York, where Mr. Boller and his family lived from about 1915 until his death in 1951.

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This page is from the 1870 U.S. Census showing the household of John Boller (lines 22 through 32) in which Mr. Claude Villette Boller is listed as the youngest of John and Mary's nine children; "Villette."

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These two pages face each other in Mr. Boller's Scrapbook. The left side, page 109, presents a copy of Weber's Weekly, Year III, No. 2., which was issued on April 22, 1905. This is a newsletter that was published by George W. Weber; the former…

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Back cover of the 1913 spring/summer mail order catalog produced by the C. V. Boller Company.

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Page 1 of the 1913 spring/summer mail order catalog produced by the C. V. Boller Company.

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A handwritten certificate from 1886 by his colleagues at Claggett Brothers in Lexington, Illinois certifying Mr. Boller as an expert sewer when he was merely 17 years old.
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