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    "title": "Flyers and Sheet Music",
    "description": "This file contains sheet music, flyers, and programs of various events, concerts, and lectures relating to Polar expeditions and travel.",
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    "ocrText": "Life Sketch of the\nSurricks\nMr. George Lincoln Surrick\nMrs. Mabel Scott Surrick,\nwas born in Philadelphia in 1861. He has won for\nlike many other vocal stars, was born in the West.\nhimself an enviable position in the amusement field,\nTo Chicago she is indebted for her vocal culture and\nas an entertainer and benefactor, by his own unflinch-\nelocutionary training, although nature had previously\ning exertions, being a thoroughly self-made man.\nbeen very generous in her gifts to this vocal favorite\nHis position having been won, has been kept by his\nand born elocutionist. Her excellent gifts, which SO\nnative good taste and ability to please the public.\neminently qualify her to delight the people and cap-\nThis young entertainer is pronounced by all who\nture critics, were inherited from her parents. Prof.\nhave witnessed his entertainments as peerless, being\nR. D. Scott, the blind musician and poet, was her\nequalled by none in his line in pleasing a refined\nfather, and Mrs. Lou Scott, the favorite mezzo soprano,\naudience. He met his talented wife on his journey\nher mother, who, with Mabel, their daughter, and\nto New Orleans, in the winter of 1889, and was\nRobert Lincoln, their son, long constituted the cele-\nmarried to her in Kansas City the following spring.\nbrated Scott Family Concert Company. Mabel, the\nThey then journeyed to the Pacific coast and back,\nsubject of this sketch, also won merited encomiums in\ntouring through most of the States, giving their en-\nlight opera, having personated, with great success,\ntertainments for the aid of benevolent societies, his\nleading characters. In fact, from the time that she\nwife forming an important auxiliary to the charm of\nmay be said to have stepped from the cradle to the\nhis work. They have travelled over 25,000 miles with-\nplatform to the present writing her success has been\nout accident, being graciously received wherever they\none continued ovation. Although still young, Mrs.\nMabel Scott Surrick's laurels have been many.\nhave appeared."
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