Breakfast Links: Week of July 11, 2016
� Victorian sewing: a brief history of plain and fancy work.
� Boxing with Byron.
� The heavenly strawberry: an earthly delight and symbol of summer.
� A breech-less brute.
� All for publicity: a 1940s abalone picnic on the beach.
� Video: short video featuring an embroidered, fringed velvet dress from the 1920s.
� Stunning 19thc photographs of Native American girls and women (scroll down past the ads; the images are worth it!)
� Killed by beer: the Meux brewery flood of 1814.
� The bloody history of the U.S. House of Representatives.
� A hound named Sweetlips belonged to George Washington: soldier, statesman, and dog-lover.
� For the flapper craving the perfect cupid's-bow lips: the lipstick template.
� The evolution of the kilt.
� Image: Fashion reality: 1912 Sourbet dress by Poiret beside fashion illustration of the same dress.
� Victorian sheet music covers.
� How a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook became a comedy sensation in the 1880s.
� A brief history of London's mulberries.
� Jack Daniel's embraces a hidden ingredient: help from a slave.
� Treasure of historic clothing revealed on the effigies of Westminster Abbey.
� The christening of Princess Victoria, June 24, 1819.
� Garden Bridge vs. Pier 55: why do New York and London think so differently about privately funded parks?
� Image: It's 1861 - and you can read this entry in the journal of nine-year-old Bostonian Sarah Putnam to discover how she spent her day.
� Remembering Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, 19thc naturalist and educator.
� A town tries to care for, and let go of, its oldest resident: a 600-year-old oak tree.
� "My darling, au revoir": the World War One diaries of Captain Charles May.
� Hanging out at La Morgue in 19thc Paris.
� Image: Portrait of Emily Bronte by her brother Branwell.
� From Bunker Hill to "Gilligan's Island," Shakespeare has a special place in American culture.
� It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a monster - or the 1880s Coney Island Flying Man.
� Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book in the last place you'd expect: Vermont.
� Image: Gloriously euphemistic 1939 advertisement for maternity clothing.
� The circus comes to Newburyport MA in 1810 - and upright people are scandalized.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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