Breakfast Links: Week of January 1, 2018

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
•  Trade cards  of old London.
• "I will never be vaccinated again": a teenaged  diarist  discusses the pain of her inoculation, 1901.
•  Abigail Adams  persisted: a letter from the then-First Lady defending a black servant from prejudice.
•  Obelisks  on the move: the manpower and engineering needed to move obelisks in ancient Egypt, Rome, and today.
• How  competitive walking  captivated Georgian Britain.
• Sewing  shrouds : 19thc burial clothes.
• Image: Needlework sampler made English novelist and poet  Charlotte Bronte .
• Harnessing the power of  baubles and bling .
• " Patriotick Ladies , of Edenton in North Carolina" 1774.
• When the master danced with his cook: a  country house Christmas  in Dorset.
• The tragedy of  prostitution  in the Old West.
•  Water  to drink in the 1690s: fit only for invalids and chickens?
• Account of a very remarkable young musician in 1769 - who happens to be  Mozart .
• Image: Women attaching the fabric to the wings of World War One  biplanes , 1918.
• The African princess (and Queen Victoria's goddaughter)  Sarah Forbes Bonetta .
• Fascinating blog to explore: commentary and transcribed daily diary of a  Huguenot girl  living in England, 1776.
• How Icelandic readers revel in the post-Christmas flood of gift books .
• Image: Poignant  Christmas card from  the 38th Welsh Division showing a soldier dreaming of home, 1917.
• A brief history of the  clothing and fabric trade  in London, 1780-1914.
•  Elizabeth Woodville , Queen of England.
•  Map  & rare book detective work: why experts now don't believe this is one of the first maps of America.
• The  key to the Bastille  has a place of honor...at George Washington's Mount Vernon.
• Just for fun: GIF: This  knight  at a Ren Faire took his responsibility to defend people from evil drones very seriously.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection