Holiday Greeting from Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

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Holiday Greeting from Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

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2014

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Paladino, Vita

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This document is a holiday greeting card from Vita Paladino, Director of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. The card extends wishes for a joyous and festive Holiday Season and a happy and healthy New Year. The front of the card features an image titled "A Banquet Scene, the Aeneid" from "The Works of Virgil, translated into English Verse by John Dryden," published in London in 1697. This image is noted as being from the Rare Book Collection of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

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