Breakfast Links: Week of May 9, 2016
� Brains plus bonnets equal an historic first: meet Mary Kies, America's first woman to become a patent holder.
� London watermen's steps in Wapping.
� Six lesser-known female pioneers of 19thc photography.
� A brief history of menstruating in outer space.
� Knitting for victory: a how-to book of projects for men serving in World War One.
� Image: "Have dinner at one, dear": 1897 stereocard shows a dramatized version of the "new woman" and her bicycle.
� Thirsty? Documenting the fresh-water springs and wells that used to be in New York City.
� The Scottish Play and the real Macbeth.
� Early color photographs of Russia from the Library of Congress.
� The 19thc Cherokee Phoenix allowed a people to speak with a newly created voice.
� Enjoy a virtual tour of George Washington's Mount Vernon.
� Image: Lady Duff Gordon - also known as the designer Lucile - fashionably dressed on the deck of the Titanic.
� Dressing the part for Carnival.
� "Summer, sun-brightest": an Anglo-Saxon summer.
� The story of a Rembrandt painting's complicated journey from a basement in New Jersey to the Getty Museum.
� The effulgence of country gardens - on velvet.
� How was Napoleon's death reported by the newspapers?
� The life and death of Mummy Brown.
� Found in Yorkshire: a gold ring, possibly worn by royalty, from the 5th-6thc, and with a sapphire that came from Sri Lanka.
� Image: An American woman teaches English busboys how to do the Charleston, 1925.
� No men were allowed at a Puff Pant Prom in the 1920s-30s.
� "Human serpents sent to us by our Mother Country": the transformation of Anthony Lamb, transported convict, 1724.
� Dressing up smart for God in the Tudor church.
� Twelve word facts you may not know about cake.
� Explore the photos of old NYC from the New York Public Library with their new free app.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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