Breakfast Links: Week of October 17, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• How London's Foundling Hospital defied " gruel stereotypes ."
• A 2,000 year old canister of ancient Roman face cream , including the finger marks of the user.
• Emily Brontë's homely life.
• Shades of Victorian fashion : lilacs, lavenders, plums, and purples.
• Black women , slavery, and the silences of the past.
• Image: Lovely, evocative autochrome photograph taken in Longwood Gardens, 1915.
• Male midwives and disobedient women in 18thc Britain.
• Ann Mead: the life and death of a teenaged nursemaid , 1800.
• Ominous illustrations of ventilation , 1869.
• Boston's Rat Day , 1917.
• Is this note passed between the lines at the Battle of Antietam stained with Civil War blood ?
• Image: Skilled needleworker  Mary, Queen of Scots , embroidered this cat.
• George Washington's "racy" letter about a donkey goes on sale.
• Signs of old London.
• Designer  Ann Lowe : how a little-known black pioneer changed fashion forever.
• Dance card from 1924 for an engineers' dance - check out the names of the dances!
• Famous illustrators depicting knitters and knitting - and here are some vintage photos of knitters , too.
• Image: Appalling early 20thc anti-suffragette poster.
• Before George Washington became a general or a president, he tried his hand at poetry, with mixed results.
• In search of the lost mosque of Kew Gardens.
• A 1950s version of Yelp? The Gustavademecum , a NYC dining guide for engineers and explorers.
• The beautiful English romantic painting of Samuel Palmer.
• Image: Little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog ,  made around 1300-1500 BC.
• Following the geometry of fire in the National Archives.
• The lighter side of 15thc magic .
• Monuments to some of the world's most pawsome cats .
• The history of the rural cemetery movement , which brought Victorians to picnic among the gravestones.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.