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!
Vast mosaic of curiosities and oddities across 19th century US
A collage of scattered notes covers humor, commerce, travel and crime. It cites Florence the actor gaining weight, Nebraska emigrants daily, high diamond values, luxurious hotels for working women, bigamy case counts in Philadelphia, and worn cursory glimpses of politics, music, and industry from Kansas to Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
South Carolina
Nebraska
Russell
Kansas
A. T. Stewart
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Lincoln
London
Theodore Thomas
Dr. Bellows
Warren Cowles
United States
Dakota
Philadelphia
Huntsville
Alabama
Lester Wallack
Fondu Lac
Anna Dickinson
Missouri
Grand Opera House
Paris
Powers
Feehter
Forrest
Barnum
Sanderson County
Klamath Lake Country
Oregon
Chicago
New England
Navy
Saratoga
Oshkosh
William Penn
Milwaukee
Friend & Brother
Hellmuth
Canada
Colorado
la Crosse
Iowa
Jacksonville IL
Marx
International
Finkenstead
England
Alexander Stephens
Atlanta Sun
Pittsburgh
Post Office Department
Ann Arbor
Montreal
Calhoun County