Breakfast Links: Week of October 3, 2016

Breakfast Links are served - our weekly round-up of fav links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
• The weathervanes of old London.
• A crewel pocketbook for Benjamin Stuart, 1763.
• Beautiful images of New York and New England by Robert L. Bracklow, a weekend photographer in the 1890s.
• Unusual suspects: finding the humanity in vintage mugshots.
• Giles Cory, the only person in American history pressed to death by a court of law.
• The links between Queen Elizabeth I and the Muslim rulers of the late 16thc: England's forgotten Muslim history.
• Image: Beautiful woodcut-printed kite, c1855.
• Time-travel down NYC's Fifth Avenue with photographs from 1911 and today.
• Death personified: the many different appearances of death in culture.
• Runaway! Recapturing working women's dress through runaway advertisement analysis, 1750-90.
• "Every minutes counts": the legacy of photojournalist Katherine Joseph.
• Drowning in Tudor England: Why was water so dangerous?
• Forgotten Georgette Heyer stories to be republished.
• Image: A page filled with drawings and signatures, c1909, from the visiting book kept by Lady Olwen Ponsonby, daughter of the eighth Earl of Bessborough.
• Snakes, mandrakes, and centaurs: a medieval herbal now online.
• The opposite of a muse: for two decades a medical secretary in Paris persuaded scores of renowned photographers to take her picture (NSFW).
• New postage stamps honoring Agatha Christie don't just celebrate her mysteries - they contain their own.
• Image: A flashy 1920s billboard advertising "Holeproof Hosiery."
• The monstrous 18thc Beast of Gevaudan.
• How an imaginary island - said to be inhabited by sorcerers and giant black rabbits - stayed on maps for five centuries.
• What to expect when you're expecting, from a 1671 midwife.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.