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Armstrong Browning Library

After the death of the Browning's only son Robert Barrett Browning and subsequent sale of their collection, Dr. Armstrong obtained a list of the items sold and their purchasers, and attempted to acquire the memorabilia via donation or purchase.

Blood Quran

However, he said that it should never be displayed in a museum as no Iraqi would want to see it, but it could perhaps be held in a private museum like Hitler or Stalin memorabilia.

Boxer, Beetle

The finder of the note, “Fishy”, so called because of a rare medical condition that causes the sufferer’s sweat to smell of rotten fish, appeals to the users of a Nazi memorabilia message board to help in solving the mystery.

Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia

The Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia, located in Burlingame, California, opened in 1995 and is run by Gary and Nancy Doss, who had been collecting Pez dispensers for more than a decade.

Claude Gordon

The Claude Gordon Personal Papers and Music Instrument Collection, 1888–1992, consists of music, correspondence with Herbert L. Clarke and other notable trumpet artists, educational material, publicity and memorabilia, and performance contracts, and is housed at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Collectabillia

com is the first-of-its-kind online portal in India that sells and auctions memorabilia of sporting legends Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Saina Nehwal, Yuvraj Singh, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Christiano Ronaldo, among others.

Cross and Crown

The symbol was also featured in the early publications and memorabilia of the Bible Students.

Cumbers

Sydney Cumbers (1875–1959), British collector of merchant navy memorabilia

Cyril Houri

In 2000, Yahoo! was sued by two French anti-racism groups demanding that Yahoo! France prevent French web users from accessing English-language auction sites offering Nazi memorabilia, which are illegal in France.

Don Lynch

Lynch has an extensive collection of Titanic memorabilia and even more extensive knowledge of the subject, having researched the RMS Titanic along with Marschall since the early 1970s.

Donald A. Swan

During the raid on Swan's apartment in Queens, New York, the police found Nazi memorabilia, weapons and ammunition.

Donna Parker

The book Donna Parker, Special Agent is included in an exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. The Newseum, which displays all manner of news media memorabilia and artifacts, has a current exhibition titled G-Men and Journalists, featuring prominent spy capers and crime stories.

Dudley Museum and Art Gallery

The room features a great deal of memorabilia connected to local football legend and Busby Babe Duncan Edwards, who was born in the town in 1936, and won two Football League title medals with Manchester United and was capped 18 times by the England national football team until he died from injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster in February 1958, when still only 21.

Dundee Dell

The restaurant, located at the intersection between 50th Street and Underwood Avenue, bills itself as a neighborhood pub, and has decorated its walls with memorabilia from various British and Irish beer and liquor companies, particularly Guinness.

Earl Gregg Swem Library

The Warren E. Burger Collection consists of the lifetime professional and personal papers and memorabilia of the late Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, as well as of related acquisitions, collected by the College.

Florence Kirsch Du Brul

The couple purchased a stately 19th century home in Lincoln Park, Chicago and filled it with art, sculpture, native handicrafts, and other memorabilia from their many trips abroad.

Flyer Enterprises

::::::::::*Flyer Spirit - A joint venture with the UD Bookstore opened in 2007 to sell Dayton Flyers apparel and memorabilia

General John Frelinghuysen House

The library contains memorabilia dedicated to the memory of Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone.

Girl 6

We now look in on Judy's dissolved relationship with her kleptomaniac ex-husband (Isaiah Washington), as well as her relationship with her baseball-memorabilia obsessed best friend, Jimmy (Spike Lee).

Gregor Benko

Benko managed the non-profit institution for two decades, attracting Spanish virtuosa Alicia de Larrocha to act as the actual President of the corporation, and building an enormous collection of recordings, scores, memorabilia and associated matter concerning concert pianists.

Henry C. Pearson

His correspondence with Heaney, and his comprehensive collection of Heaney books, manuscripts and memorabilia, is now housed at the University of North Carolina.

International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism

LICRA received considerable media attention during the case of LICRA v. Yahoo!, in which it brought charges against Yahoo! for selling Nazi memorabilia to people in France in violation of French laws proposed, passed, and used by and for LICRA.

Irish Music Hall of Fame

The museum was a memorabilia-filled display telling the story of Irish music through exclusive and personally donated merchandise from many important Irish musical artists including Van Morrison, U2, Sinéad O'Connor, Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, The Undertones and Boyzone.

Jamie Shovlin

In 2006 Shovlin created another exhibition based on the memorabilia of a non-existent German glam rock band called Lustfaust.

Józef Łukaszewicz

The largest collection of his memorabilia is preserved in the Polish Secondary School of Medininkai.

Julio Lobo

A renowned art connoisseur, Lobo also acquired the largest collection of Napoleonic memorabilia outside France (the collection is housed today in Havana in the former home of Orestes Ferrara, at the Museo Napoleonico).

Junibacken

The station also presents framed copies of Lindgren memorabilia, including a glowing letter of praise for Lindgren from then president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.

Kentucky Scottish Weekend

Items sold included Scottish and American food items, Celtic collectibles, kilts, Scottish music, Clan memorabilia, and Scottish heathers.

Kermit Sheets

A collections of his work and memorabilia is preserved by the Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Leeuwenhosen

Bavaria again distributed orange memorabilia in the Netherlands before the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, as is customary of breweries in the Netherlands.

Linton, Indiana

The Carnegie Heritage and Arts Center of Greene County is responsible for preserving and maintaining the historic 1908 Margaret Cooper Public Library building (a Carnegie library), which also houses the city's Phil Harris and Alice Faye memorabilia collection.

Magee, Mississippi

The Sanatorium Museum, a museum of memorabilia from the old tuberculosis hospital, includes the old telephone switchboard, a patient bedroom with nightstand, equipment and many photographs, located on Highway 49 North two miles (3 km) north of Magee, in Sanatorium, Mississippi.

Mandela House

The inside hosts some original furnishings and memorabilia including photographs, citations given to Nelson Mandela, and the world championship belt given to Mandela by Sugar Ray Leonard.

Mary Anne Atwood

A Suggestive Inquiry was reissued in 1918 under Mary Anne's married name, with an appendix containing her table talk and memorabilia, and with an extensive biographical and philosophical introduction by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst.

Mike Gilbert

Mike Gilbert was also alleged to be the source of some of the memorabilia items that Simspon tried to recover from two memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Nevada, Nevada.

Musée national Eugène Delacroix

Today the museum contains Delacroix's memorabilia and works, exhibiting pictures from nearly every phase of his career, including the artist's only three attempts at fresco from Valmont (1834); the Education of the Virgin painted in Nohant in 1842; and Magdalene in the Desert exhibited at the 1845 Salon.

National Civil War Museum

collection of memorabilia from Lincoln’s assassination including a lock of Lincoln’s hair, a sash from the funeral train, (the original) telegram ordering the arrest of John Wilkes Booth, a ticket to that night’s production of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre, a replica of his "life mask", and a fragment of Mary Todd Lincoln's dress that she wore the night of the assassination

Pittsworth, Queensland

Items include a chantilly lace wrap which once belonged to Florence Nightingale, a love letter written by Governor Bligh's mother, an outdoor display of carts and farm equipment and memorabilia connected with Arthur Postle who, in 1906, was proclaimed 'the fastest man in the world' when he won the 220 yards World Championship Cup.

PlayGroundOnline

In the year 2010, PlayGroundOnline launched FIFA world cup soccer merchandise offering products such as T-shirts, books, Videos and Other memorabilia of soccer teams.

Polish Museum, Rapperswil

The library's memorabilia cover several centuries and include items associated with Tadeusz Kościuszko, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Władysław Reymont and Jan Nowak-Jeziorański.

R. Thad Taylor

The artifacts, archives and memorabilia from Hollywood's Globe Theatre and the Shakespeare Society of America were moved to Moss Landing, California in 2007.

Red Hot + Indigo

The event featured rare RHO memorabilia and the work of Rolling Stone photographer Mark Seliger.

Stolen and missing moon rocks

In September 2009, while cooperating with a worldwide hunt for Moon rocks with Associated Press reporter Toby Sterling (Netherlands Bureau) and Cyprus Mail reporter Lucy Millett, the daughter of the British Ambassador to Cyprus, Gutheinz was advised by his friend and space memorabilia expert Robert Pearlman (CollectSpace.com) that Pearlman had learned in 2003 that the Cyprus Goodwill Moon Rock was never presented to Cyprus, but retained by the son of an American diplomat.

Supercult

Some sets focused around a theme which was often humorous, such as models posing with Star Wars figures and Memorabilia, or dressed as a (sexy) French mime.

Time for Bed

Gabe’s mother spends her life talking about and collecting memorabilia of the LZ 129 Hindenburg, an airship designed by her own father, while their father spends his life swearing loudly at his wife at their home at 22 Salmon Street, Wembley Park.

Turl Street

While it is dominated by the three Turl Street colleges, the street houses several shops, including a sports shop, a bar and restaurant (the Turl Street Kitchen), a costume-magic shop, an Oxfam shop, a number of jewellery and memorabilia shops, a cafe, a news agent/general store, a whisky shop, a shoe shop (Duckers, featured in Atonement), a picture-framing workshop, and the traditional gentleman's tailors, Walters of Oxford.

U.S. Route 66 in California

This oversight has since been corrected; the diner remains open, complete with memorabilia of the roadside Texaco which is no longer in operation at the site.

Willie Johnston

The Port Brae Bar pub in Kirkcaldy was run by his son Dean until a dispute with the Belhaven Brewery led to the pub being boarded up, locking Johnston's collection of memorabilia inside.


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