Stork announcement for Holt Family Adoptions
date: label: date made
content: 1955
label: arrival date
content: 1955-10-14
notes: label: Description
content: Vertical, rectangular piece of white paper printed in black "Announcing the Arrival of Octuplets on October 14, 1955 to the home and Mr. and Mrs Harry Holt, Creswell, Ore." Design features a stork at top flying left with a Pan Am airplane across its body and eight smiling babies suspended from its beak in diapers along the left side; black-and-white headshots of the children with names and ages to right; and verses from Isaiah 43:5, 6, 7 at bottom. Folded in sixths, with five horizontal fold lines visible. No marks.
label: Description
content: Made by the Holt family.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Oregon, Creswell
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Holt International Children's Services
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0261.12
label: accession number
content: 2003.0261
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0261.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: announcement, birth
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper, wove (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 12.065 cm