Breakfast Links: Week of April 4, 2016
� How the Mickey Mouse watch was born in Connecticut in the depths of the Great Depression.
� The mystery of concealed witch bottles.
� Goat rituals and tree-trunk gravestones: the peculiar history of life insurance.
� Image: Map of nightclubs and speakeasies in 1920s Harlem.
� Holloways: Roads tunneled into the earth through the traffic of time.
� The smallest show on earth: a Victorian flea circus.
� Quaker, whaler, coward, spy: how one man was caught up in the Age of Revolution.
� Image: Magnificent diamond tiara made for Queen Victoria of Spain, 1906.
� According to his reviews, Sir Walter Scott took Jane Austen's books very seriously.
� If you were an 18thc sailor, your diet wasn't going to have much variety.
� Some very oddly titled (but charmingly illustrated) sheet music from the early 20thc.
� Image: How to remove ink stains from linen, 16thc style.
� "You know the balance of trade was always against me": Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson go shopping in Paris, 1785.
� Victorian and Edwardian umbrellas.
� All the different ouija boards you never knew existed.
� Andrew Jackson, the original anti-establishment presidential candidate.
� Image: Suffragist Margaret Foley drops "Votes for Women" leaflets from a balloon over Lawrence, MA.
� "When gentlemen play'd high and stay'd late" - and what that meant.
� A rare pair of George III silver candlesticks featuring a sailor and his lass.
� The American Civil War soldiers who tempted fate with North African fashion on the battlefield.
� When New York was the greatest port in America, and its piers were filled with excitement.
� Image: An unusual portrait: Queen Victoria's face on the bowl of a pipe.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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