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!
Gleanings Of Oddities From A Vast 19th Century World
A mosaic of curiosities including nine million Fay in world circulation, Brighton Aquarium Boxing Day attendance, a Maine judge jailing a newspaper editor for insult, boar head feasts at Oxford, a found Samoan Dodo likely bound for America, peculiar postal misreads in Kansas City, and a series of notes on printing in the South Seas. Also covers Miss Rye aiding English children in Canada, Lord Aberdeen and Wellington anecdotes, weather lore, oyster culture, Christmas in Paris, and a Berlin White Lady legend tied to Hohenzollern history with university experts seeking explanations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton Aquarium
Maine
Queen’s College
Oxford
South Pacific
America
Kansas City
New York
Desatch
Crystal Palace Company
Sydenham
Rutland
Vermont
George Harbin
Turner
Ely
Longleat
Harbin
Alexander Malet
King Pomare
South Sea Islands
William Ellis
Canada
Toronto Globe
Miss Rye
Coalition
Wellington
Hutton
Chambers
London
Frank Buckland
Althoug
Pall Mall Gazette
Marchande
Champs Elysées
Alexandre Dumas
Levenp
Waite Lang
Berwin Castle