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Correspondence

Correspondence from Gayleen Aiken to Marcy Hermansader

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Gayleen Aiken was an artist from Barre. Her correspondence frequently interspersed art, poetry, testimonials, life updates, and philosophical ideas. This small collection of letters to Marcy Hermansader is representative of her incredibly prolific body of work.

Cousins Dancing Front of the Nickelodeon

Crayon illustration showing several people in a domestic room surrounding a large brown wooden nickelodeon. A person playing an organ is visible in a different room through a door on the left. The figures consist of a red-haired girl wearing a pink shirt and blue skirt; a black-haired girl wearing a green dress; a red-haired boy wearing a green shirt (playing the organ); a black-haired girl wearing a blue dress; a brown-haired girl wearing a yellow shirt and red skirt; and a black-haired boy wearing a green striped shirt. The bottom is labeled, "Cousins Dancing Front of the Nickelodeon".

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