This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Flax, feet, and ridiculed views across the nation
The item catalogues a string of varied notes from the era including Minnesota flax shifts, a 256 pound Presidential candidate Judge Davis, a ruby in a Florida quail, ramie in Santa Barbara, and Chicago to New York cultural notes. It mentions a German landwehr in New York, gas from corn cobs, and distant travels through Egypt, with scattered social and political jabs and curiosities.
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Minnesota
Davis
South Carolina
Illinois
Council Bluffs
Madame Janauschek
South
New York
Ramie
Santa Barbara
Hi Simmonds
Highgate
Vermont
Florida
Sarah Pinckney
Egypt
Los Angeles
Bierstadt
Yosemite Valley
Vermont Central Railroad
Negley
Congress
Hopkins County
Memphis
Potter Christ
McHenry County
Ilinois
Yuba County
California
Savannah
Pillow
Bank of California
San Francisco
Keokuk
West
Miss IL
Strasburg
Fairplay
Grant County
Wisconsin
London
Dubuque
Bismarck
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Joaquin Miller
South America
Jack Sheppard
Lord Stanley
Alderley
Louis Prang
Indian Territory
England
Heligoland
Carpenter
Cortland County