Saturday, December 10, 2011

Breakfast Links: Week of December 5, 2011


Served up fresh: our weekly offering of Breakfast Links!  Our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, collected from around the Twitterverse.
A 19th c Manhattan landmark destroyed "by stealth": http://bit.ly/vIXqBr
What a costume says: Mildred Pierce's 1930s waitress uniform: http://bit.ly/vfjKbN
Civil War cool: Three young officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, hanging out by a tree: http://bit.ly/rqvuK1
Check out the festive pug! 19th c chromolithographed Christmas cards from Am. Antiquarian Society : http://bit.ly/uAhqNL
'Beyond the Grave: Concepts of Death in Early Modern England' - http://wp.me/p14Gvd-u9
Grafffiti at the Tower of London: http://bit.ly/tw6W1g 
Sometime in late 41 BC, Marc Antony and Cleopatra had Cleopatra's sister and rival Arsinoe executed http://ow.ly/7FAys
• On-line book:  'Street Life in London', 1877: Rare descriptions & photographs of ordinary working people:http://tinyurl.com/cyffsy8
The myth of Krampus, the bad guy of #Christmas out to punish bad children: http://bit.ly/vsZe5w
If you haven't already discovered the tumblr of smoldering gentlemen in cravats from, you should. Really. :http://bit.ly/jQIVHk
Modern realities of maintaining British estates: http://on.wsj.com/sFUmoT
Looking at the work by Betty Ratcliffe, eighteenth-century artist and lady's maid: http://bit.ly/vcWDU4
Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer: http://bit.ly/u4EMTD
The Vindication of Christmas, 1652, shows how Father Christmas was perceived in Cromwell’s England: http://bit.ly/uEEsH4
'Parting the veil of Faery', 1890s -http://bit.ly/ty9T5z
Extraordinary pair of ivory, steel, & brass wheellock pistols, c 1655-65 from Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://bit.ly/sFwvy4 
Illegal marriage, an escape attempt in men's clothing, & finally death by starvation: the life of Arabella Stuarthttp://bit.ly/uKRCTJ
A history of the 'gin palaces' in Regency England: http://bit.ly/vzt7AQ
Exploding cuffs: how 1740s women's fashions widened: http://bit.ly/roOtMt
18th c horse racing: http://bit.ly/vLy3Ys
Anyone for a full baron? Roasting the Christmas Beef:http://bit.ly/tfZDhx
Birds of Paradise http://bit.ly/shmGxP(*gorgeous* hand-coloured engravings)
Looks like a high old time: Vintage (and embarrassing!) photos from1948 Christmas office party in NYC: http://bit.ly/uQzKSA
Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898

2 comments:

  1. I love your links!

    As soon as I get a bit more time I'll start going through all of them - at this moment, I can only read a few choice articles every time, but what I do read leaves me wanting more :) .

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  2. What a privilege it would be to get an envelope from Edward Gorey! I love is stuff and all those personal missives are fabulous.

    All the links were great this week, but then again, they always are. :o)

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