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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 ... Comment - Like
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From the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser dated December 26th 1788, a slave advertisement for a sixteen year old Negro Boy waiter. Comment - Like
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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." Comment - Like
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From the National Intelligencer dated June 1st 1826, article on the Thomas Jefferson lottery. Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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 ... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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 ... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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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... Comment - Like
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