[Jacob-list] thank you.

[Linda]

Thanks for the link. It would have been fun to see Jacobs in the picture :-)

Susan Nielsen wrote:

> Here is a 1919 photograph of the sheep on the White House lawn. 

> Off-hand, I would say there are no Jacobs in the group. Doesn't mean 

> there weren't ever any, but I think the odds are against it.

>

> http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a52000/3a52000/3a52085r.jpg

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> Linda writes:

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>

>     The ad also states that Jacobs were used to mow the grass at the

>     Whitehouse before lawnmowers. Any body else ever heard that?

>

>     Linda

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