Breakfast Links: Week of April 16, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• The decades-long quest to find and honor the grave of pioneering 19thc black sculptor Edmonia Lewis .
• Treasure maps, pirate utopias, and author Robert Louis Stevenson .
• Little-known story of the six Chinese men who survived the sinking of the Titanic, only to be immediately deported after arriving in NYC.
• The Hancocks of 18thc Boston in wool, silk, and linen.
• GIFs that return ancient ruins to their former glory.
• The Progress of a Water-Coloured Drawing: highlights from a how-to-paint book from 1804.
• Love letters between 19th inmates at Eastern State Penitentiary reveal secret communications and relationships at the famously isolating prison.
• Image: Necklace fashioned posthumously from radical author  Mary Wollstonecroft's hair.
• Medieval graffiti : the lost voices of England's churches in the middle ages.
• Women's riding apparel , in the 1920s and now.
• The tragic story of Elizabeth Whitman , the inspiration for The Mysterious Coquette.
• Biscuits, broth, and hasty pudding: the diets of the Romantic Poets.
• Image: All about the honey: a medieval Winnie the Pooh appears in this 15thc Italian manuscript.
• The myth of Dolley Madison and the White House Easter Egg Roll.
• James Ince & Sons,  umbrella makers .
• Queen Mary I of England washes the feet of the poor.
• Albany's Willy Wonka: remembering hand-made  chocolates .
• Image: Title page of translation of Plutarch's Lives, as critically annotated by Mark Twain.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.