Breakfast Links: Week of October 29, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of favorite links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• Does discovery of a red velvet bag reinforce the legend that Sir Walter Raleigh's widow Elizabeth kept his  severed head  with her after his execution?
• R is for  raisins , the unexpected super-food found in many early modern medicines.
•  Norah Smyth , suffragette photographer.
• Image: Cat passages in the doors at Thomas Jefferson's 18thc  Monticello .
• The 19thc  angel guides  of death.
• Stylish (and prize-winning) 1959  dress , made from a feedsack.
• President  George Washington's letter  to the Hebrew congregation in Newport, RI, 1790.
• Image:  Dubious tips  on how to get a husband from an 1950s women's magazine.
• " Knackers pork ": the grim reality of London slaughterhouses during the Regency.
•  Elizabeth Thorn , the angel of the Battle of Gettysburg.
• Wheat the old way: 1940s video of Pennsylvania Dutch family  harvesting wheat  by hand, without modern machinery.
• From an 1930s  trousseau : beautifully embroidered silk slip and tap pants.
• Image: 1850s child's leather  boot  decorated with a black cat.
• A  Mandarin duck  mysteriously appears on a pond in New York's Central Park.
• John Rogers and "The Legend of  Sleepy Hollow ."
• The  Kit-Kat Club , an 18thc literary, political, and social club that became a stronghold of the Whig party.
• Workers in a Goodwill store in New Jersey discover an important, original 1774 Philadelphia  "rebel" newspaper .
• Fifteen important women in history that you may not have heard of.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
Please note: I'll be traveling this week, so alas, no Breakfast Links next Sunday....