The Improbable Life of the Inventor of the Modern Bra - Atlas Obscura
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Mary Phelps, known as Polly to friends, was born in 1891 to a family that could trace its heritage to such luminaries as William Bradford, Plymouth Colony's
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Horizons (II) - The New Modernist Studies
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Literary History Of The English
February, 2017
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CABINET 1 Invented Languages Issue, PDF
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PDF) The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish (Yale University Press, 2014
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Bras - Atlas Obscura
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New Hampshire Magazine January-February 2023 by Yankee Publishing
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Collections Highlight Archives - Duke University Libraries Blogs
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Stories - Atlas Obscura
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From Performance to Participation: The Origins of the Fit Nation
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