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A St. Valentine's Day poem composed by Katherine Tannis-Boller for her husband, Claude Villette Boller, in 1905.

Page 42 and 43 of the 1926 city directory for the town of Freeport, NY. Page 43 shows various members of the Boller family residing at 180 Whaley Street and the location of Mr. Boller's business at 42 S. Grove Street, Freeport.

Page 110 of Mr. Boller's scrapbook presents a 4-page pamphlet produced by Montgomery Ward & Co. detailing their perspective on the Chicago Teamsters' Strike of 1905. It includes sections taken from various Chicago-based newspaper of the time.

This is a brochure announcing the Montgomery Ward & Co. Clerks' Benefit Society's Third Annual Picnic which took place at Fox River Grove on July 18, 1903.

A 1905 advertisement by Montgomery Ward & Co. for their free mail-order catalog. The boarder features illustrations and prices for 29 individual items.

An article about Mr. Boller's employment history with Montgomery Ward & Co. taken from "Up From the Ranks," Among Ourselves, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Employees of Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, vol. 1, no. 9 (June 1904):…

Image of Mr. C. V. Boller taken from "Up From the Ranks," Among Ourselves, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Employees of Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, vol. 1, no. 9 (June 1904): 435.

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.

This letter requests Mr. Boller's presence in Chicago to testify in the criminal case brought against the Teamsters' Union in 1906 for the violent labor strike that plagued the city of Chicago in 1905.

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.