Breakfast Links: Week of March 7, 2011

Happy Sunday! Here’s this week's serving of the freshest Breakfast Links – our selection of noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and other curiosities that we've discovered wandering around the Twitterverse:

• Three lovely pairs of 18th century shoes. http://trouvais.com/2011/03/06/stripes-florals-and-ruffles/

• "...to the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat.": http://t.co/g4f

• "Wot d'yer call that?": Thomas Rowlandson's wonderful Lower Orders: http://bit.ly/eKU8nm

• For International Women's Day, a post about the world's first self-made millionairess, Madame Walker: http://bit.ly/eXEsbT

• Carnival at Versailles, and the appearance of the Marquise de Pompadour http://ow.ly/1bFo7X

• Improv Everywhere prank- King Philip IV signs autographs in front of own portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://is.gd/QgsgRE

• Beautiful book bindings - embroidered, royal, old & new - from the Folger Library: http://bit.ly/gQ9Ji

• Early 19th c lady's workbox in the shape of a peacock & what it symbolizes: http://cot.ag/fzLlhj

• The lack of fanfare is kinda sweet: Here's a blast from the past. A Chanel fashion show circa 1959! http://ow.ly/45VTK

• Solve an historical mystery for the National Trust: exactly how were these 1820 'card racks' used? http://bit.ly/gEvOC2

• "Old lady who lived in a shoe" - enchanting shop piece filled with tiny dolls: http://bit.ly/etaIwu #antiquedolls

• These old mugshots are things of beauty. http://t.co/w7qvvV5

• Take a Virtual Tour of the Pump Room and Adjoining... http://t.co/XJCGrr6

• Man AND Woman: The Truly Peculiar World of Chevalier d’Eon http://post.ly/1jFC3

• The Last of England http://bit.ly/ieZfRy & finished study http://bit.ly/hAAzBL & Portrait of Emma Hill http://bit.ly/kcV3K

• Wow - Smithsonian discovers color pix of 1906 San Francisco earthquake. I had ancestors there! http://bit.ly/gKAtRz

• The Wicked Squire: The tale of a 19^th century landowner and his eccentric deeds. http://bit.ly/gXbnaS

• 18th Century Advertising, When Brevity Wasn’t Key: http://ow.ly/4bKVX

Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898