Saturday, April 1, 2017

Breakfast Links: Week of March 27, 2017

Saturday, April 1, 2017
Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Charles Spurgeon's 1880s photographs of London's street traders.
• "We must make haste, for when we home are come, We find again our work has just begun": women's never-ending work in the 18thc.
• The enduring legacy of the Pocahontas legend.
• A brief, poignant video in honor of the at-risk textile mills that once defined the landscape of the North of England.
Image: An over-the-top fop via an 1930 Saturday Evening Post cover by J.C. Leyendecker.
• With flint and derring-do, the early 20thc pilot Ruth Law ruled American skies.
• Experts restore a rare 17thc Dutch Golden Age map found stuffed up a Scottish chimney.
• George Washington's Mount Vernon during the American Revolution.
Image: In 1902, a Frenchman imagined what women might look like if they started taking up "male" professions - don't you want to be this journalist?
• How an 1887 Harlem, NY mansion became a Depression era rooming house - and home to an 85-year-old con artist.
• Regency rules of the road.
• New on-line exhibition for An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution by the DAR Museum.
• The lost townscape of 16thc Edinburgh recreated.
• Houses of death: walking the wards of a Victorian hospital.
Katherine Goddard printed the first complete copy of the Declaration of Independence.
• How to do, well, basically everything, according to cigarette cards.
• Pride and racial prejudice - how the far right is trying to associate their dogma with Jane Austen.
Switchel, the 18thc energy drink.
Child dropping (or child abandonment) in Regency Britian.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection

1 comments:

Elena Jardiniz said...

The female journalist: I love the look, would make a marvelous 'steampunk' look but I must ask... Why is there a duck on her hat? I like the duck but it looks odd, like it's been photoshopped in or something.

 
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