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1880 Early Map of Lake Chapala Mexico

James A. posted an article on - Jun 14, 2010, 12:42 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! history From a early 1880's geography book, a map of Lake Chapala which is Mexico's largest freshwater lake. It is located at southeast of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and is situated on the border between the states of Jalisco and Michoacán, at 1,524 ...
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1788 Maryland Slave Advertisement for Child Waiter

James A. posted an article on - May 26, 2010, 4:05 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! history From the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser dated December 26th 1788, a slave advertisement for a sixteen year old Negro Boy waiter.
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1861 Map of the Battle Field of Bull Run Stone Bridge and Manassas Plain

James A. posted an article on - May 14, 2010, 3:39 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! history This map is from the New York Herald dated Sunday August 25th 1861. "The Rebel Plan of the Battle Field of Bull Run, Stone Bridge and Manassas Plain."
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1826 Thomas Jefferson Lottery Advertisement for Debt

James A. posted an article on - May 10, 2010, 3:00 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! history From the National Intelligencer dated June 1st 1826, article on the Thomas Jefferson lottery.
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1855 Engraving of the Niagara Suspension Bridge

James A. posted an article on - May 6, 2010, 10:41 am
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! history This is "The Niagara Suspension Bridge" taken from Moore's Rural New Yorker dated June 30th 1855. The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge was the world's first working railway suspension bridge. It was used downstream of Niagara Falls from 18...
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1826 First Orangutan to Visit New England Dies in New Bedford

James A. posted an article on - May 3, 2010, 2:09 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! This article is from a 1826 New England newspaper regarding the first orangutan to visit New England. Sadly the creature perished minutes after landing in New Bedford MA harbor. The animal came from Jakarta, on the island of Java, which is the capital city ...
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1824 James Monroe to use hemp for naval vessels

James A. posted an article on - Apr 19, 2010, 9:15 am
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! From the New York Spectator dated May 25th 1824, a resolution from Congress requesting President James Monroe to use hemp on Naval ships. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, though there is little evidence that they were aware of hemp's psych...
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1849 FIJI Mermaid Advertisement visiting Boston

James A. posted an article on - Apr 13, 2010, 8:56 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! The FIJI (Feejee) mermaid was a widespread aspect of sideshows, which was shown in museums throughout America as the mummified body of a living thing that was supposedly partly mammal and partly fish, a version of long-established mermaid narratives. The FIJI...
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Early Tobacco card of Actress Maude Fealy

James A. posted an article on - Mar 31, 2010, 3:42 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! Below is a example of a "Between the Acts" Little Cigars tobacco card from the early 1900's of actress and stage performer Maude Fealy. Maude Fealy was a stage and film actress who first gained acclaim as a silent film actress, and successfully adapted to...
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1904 Early Portable Phone with 13,000 feet of Copper Wire!

James A. posted an article on - Mar 30, 2010, 3:23 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! From a 1904 issue of the San Fransisco Call newspaper. Imagine carrying 13,000 feet of copper wire with you - especially on the battlefield! The latest Swedish invention that is being discussed is the portable telephone. The specimens that have been sent abro...
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1835 Great Magician Adrien Message for the Ladies

James A. posted an article on - Mar 26, 2010, 4:06 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! Here is an interesting car advertisement I found an old newspaper from 1835. For some reason I found it amusing that this magician targeted this advertisement particularly to the women. He sounded possibly like quite the ladies man. The Great Magician Adrien...
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Davey Crockett on the Pennsylvania Railroad

James A. posted an article on - Mar 24, 2010, 3:22 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! COL CROCKETT. On Sunday evening last, Col. David Crockett, the universally known Tennessean, passed through Columbia in the railroad cars, on his way from Philadelphia, where he had spent the 4th inst, to the far west. He was invited to remain a day or two ...
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1820 Delaware Fee Man Captured and Beaten

James A. posted an article on - Mar 15, 2010, 3:36 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! BALTIMORE June 1st 1820 - On Friday night last in the vicinity of the town of Salisbury, Md. the noted kidnapper Dean Marvell, of Delaware, with an associate by the name of Curtis Stene, ware decoyed and apprehended by the Protecting Society of Salisbury, an...
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1837 Lauriat's Balloon Ride East Boston to Duxbury

James A. posted an article on - Mar 11, 2010, 9:30 am
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! From the Christian Register and Boston Observer, July 8th 1837, this article details a balloon ascension from East Boston to Duxbury Bay in Massachusetts. Lewis A. Lauriat was born on the island of Guadalupe in the French West Indies. Colonial records give his...
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1872 Harriet Beecher Stowe Serious Accident

James A. posted an article on - Mar 10, 2010, 4:58 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! This small piece is from the New York Weekly Reformer, Watertown NY, March 7th 1872. In the 1870's Harriet Beecher Stowe who authored Uncle Tom's Cabin, wintered in Mandarin, south of Jacksonville on the St. Johns River. In Mandarin, Stowe created an...
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1820 Boston Execution for Piracy News Report

James A. posted an article on - Mar 8, 2010, 10:32 pm
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! From the Columbian Register, Boston MA, dated June 24th 1820. EXECUTION - On Thursday last, sentence of death was executed in this town, on William Holmes, Edward Rosewaine, and Thomas Warrington, alias Thomas Warren Fawcett, for the crimes of piracy and murd...
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1844 Cure for Deafness Advertisement

James A. posted an article on - Mar 8, 2010, 10:41 am
Please share via Facebook! or Twitter! Here is a advertisement from 1844 from Lowell, MA for a cure for deafness from Cooper's Ethereal oil. Ethereal oil is a volatile liquid consisting of equal volumes of heavy oil of wine and ether. A example of a authentic bottle it came in is below. One a...
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