Breakfast Links: Week of June 20, 2016
� Image: Miniature corset, 1890s, most likely used as a salesman's sample.
� Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape on the dissecting table, 1826.
� The polyamorous Christian Socialist utopia that made silverware for proper Americans.
� Archibald MacPheadris and his room: a Baroque merchant's house in Portsmouth, NH, 1716.
� How fashion magazines talked in the 1930s.
� The route of Don Quixote: following in the footsteps of one of the greatest novels of all time.
� Image: Edwardian postcard: Suffering to achieve the ideal beauty, yet mocked for the fakery.
� How England became a nation of tea-drinkers.
� Horn and Hardart automats: redefining lunch time, dining on a dime.
� Six New England ghost towns.
� Gout, king's evil, plague in the guts, murder: how people died in 17thc London.
� The Elizabethan garden: plants that Shakespeare would have known well.
� Image: Convenience store in St. James's Park, complete with cow, c1900.
� How two 18thc female pirates became BFFs on the high seas.
� America's obsession with presidential hair.
� A brief history of goldfish globes and goldfish hawkers.
� What she left behind.
� Video: A favorite of dandies: the now-long-lost spat.
� How "domestic" was women's work, 1500-1700?
� A three-year-old's shoes are a powerful monument to the General Slocum tragedy of 1904.
� Image: Judy Garland stood 4'11", but not in these - created for her by Salvatore Ferragamo in 1936 (and still sold today.)
� Fifteen women who deserve their own biopics.
� Be honest: can you really tell left from right?
� And then there were ten: surviving landmarked Dutch houses in Brooklyn, NY.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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