Breakfast Links: Week of June 18, 2017

• Kate Warne , the first female detective in the United States.
• Jane Austen , war novelist and worldly businesswoman.
• A rare deposition from the Salem Witch trials that helped sentence an elderly widow to death is to be sold.
• Image: Stunning 1856 photo of Queen Victoria with George III's daughter Princess Mary (Minnie.)
• Changes on the land: 19th American photography east of the Mississippi.
• An 18thc tartan frock coat that may have been worn by Bonnie Prince Charlie himself.
• How a fragment of Chinese wallpaper at Uppark can be a piece in a continent-wide puzzle.
• Image: An early 19thc view of Sadler's Wells Theatre.
• Spy techniques of the American Revolution.
• Protection and punishment: beliefs about angels in Tudor & Stuart England.
• The painted leg: liquid stockings of the 1940s.
• Mud, sweat, and fears: the making of a Japanese kimono .
• Architect Mary Colter was "a surly woman who cursed with abandon" - and designed pioneering National Park structures that blended into the environment.
• Striking portraits of ancient people in this collection of Fayum portraits .
• Image: Surely this "Mosco Silk" shawl was unusual in 1804 Portland, Maine.
• How Tories used money and influence to win an election ...in 1816.
• Rayon , an epidemic of insanity, and the woman who fought to expose it.
• The comforts of home on the battlefield: an 18thc folding camp bed used by General George Washington.
• Umbrella etiquette and manners in the 19thc.
• Remembering Bingo , a trench dog and mascot of World War One.
• Mary Katherine Goddard , the printer of the first broadside of the Declaration of Independence to list signers.
• Image: Just for fun: Civil status, according to Jane Austen . And while we're at it, how about these hints on achieving a Regency Beach Body .
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection
Published on June 24, 2017 14:00
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