I have two Carte de Visites, one seemingly of a young girl in a dress, around 3 years old, the other of a male in his early 20s. The photo of the girl appears to date from the 1860, and has the hand written inscription “Lacey Nussey Everett”. The photo of...
From “A Handbook For Hanging” by Charles Duff, 1928, “Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Aspyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as...
In Charles Leland’s 1874 book “English Gipsies and Their Language”, under the section ‘A Gipsy Advertisment in “The Times”‘ he discusses a classified ad that his crptogropher friend tried in vain to deceipher, and which he...
Founded in 1899, the Surrey Walking Club made an unfortunate choice of emblem – the swastika, an ancient symbol of good fortune – shown here on this certificate to Mr W J Harris, who walked 3 miles in 31 minutes and 43 seconds on 1st September...
From the large leatherbound Bible of the Bradford / Barton / Eaton Family from Philidelphia and Boston USA coming soon to the website, this remarkable snippet documenting smallpox innoculation in Boston at the time of the great smallpox epidemic of 1792. This...
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