Breakfast Links: Week of February 13, 2017

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• What  bloomers  reveal about the 19thc women who wore them.
• The lavish work of one of the last  gilders  of the royal court at Versailles.
• Abraham Lincoln's  tough love letter  to his step-brother about laziness and his work-ethic.
• Mini-video: Victorian and Edwardian  sewing samples .
• Fashioning the 17thc in Boston:  clothing  belonging to Hannah and John Leverett.
• Image: Found: a long-lost photograph of  Harriet Tubman .
• How a reproduction scenic wallpaper featuring the " Ruins of Rome " finally completes one of the grandest private spaces from colonial America.
• Valentine's Day and the  romance of cobwebs .
• "Now or never":  African-American troops  in the Civil War.
• Is this the most jaw-dropping  room  in London?
• Image: An  ocean liner  departing from New York for Europe, as seen from the Empire State Building, 1921.
• The  tailor made : the power suit of the Edwardian era.
• History's  love letters  provide heartfelt glimpse of the beloved.
• The sad tale of the 18thc miser  Mary Luhorne .
• Seldom mentioned: a  Regency abortion , 1816.
• The legendary 19thc counter-revolutionary, royalist, and insurrectionist  Jean "Chouan" Couttereau .
• Image: Crossing the  frozen Hudson River  at Albany, NY by sleigh, 1853.
• Crafting protest,  fashioning politics : DIY lessons from the American Revolution.
• Mr. Darcy's tempting, pleasing, and dangerous  mouth and lips .
• Everything you know about  corsets  is false.
• "America is lost!" wrote  King George III  - of did he?
• Image: Just for fun: When you lie on your  resume , but still get the job.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection