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!
Vivid Trimmings and Global Oddities Stir Public Curiosity
A roundup of curiosities spans London vicarage ad space, young Revolutionary War soldiers, women teaching in English pharmacy colleges, Buckingham Palace liveries and a $32 million battleship engine bill. It notes St Paul’s bascule piers, a fox tailed monkey’s calls, 12,000 graves near Boulogne, U.S. strikes in 1919, and diverse customs across nations and eras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Colleges of Pharmacy
England
Buckingham Palace
Fresno
Cal
St. Paul’s Cathedral
South America
France
Boulogne
Bureau of Labor Statistics
United States
Russia
Mary
Vienna
B.C
Paris
Warsaw
Boston
House of Commons
Charles I
Kansas
Arctic
Australian Commonwealth Ministry
Newark
N. J
America
Margaret A. Best
George IV
William IV
Victoria
Edward VII
George
Rio de Janeiro
Japan
Conrad van Pelt
van Pelt
Venice
The
Academy
Italy
Titian
Frari
Amiens
Etaples